I do completely understand your passion for our Lord, and your understanding of the word of God, I just do not like the crucifix, and I do not understand the connection between memorializing a dying and tortured body, and our faith in the reasons Jesus died for us. Without the death of Jesus we do not have a risen and living savior. THAT is the reason to preach Jesus crucified.
I am just telling you that as a Christian, I was horrified when I realized that a Catholic crucifix was a dying Christ on a cross.
That was my honest reaction.
It horrifies and offends me, and makes me feel so sad that people would choose to keep Jesus on the cross.
The day of Pentecost, for example, was a hugely important day, and Jesus was not on the cross that day, he was alive then.
>> “The day of Pentecost, for example, was a hugely important day, and Jesus was not on the cross that day, he was alive then.” <<
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Only to his own!
The rest just knew it had to be a scam, and they are still counting on a scam to this day.
I remember, though, as a little girl kneeling in front of a big crucifix made of some kind of shiny black wood, maybe it was ebony. I remember it as being huge, certainly bigger than me, maybe bigger than a man standing, though of course for a little girl the memory may be larger than life. But I was kneeling looking at the figure of Christ on that cross, and all the pity in my little heart ran over, to think that He would willingly do that for me.
It bears thinking about, and even "feeling" about. We should not get comfortable with it. The plain shock of it can bring us to repentance, and even compassion, certainly gratitude I hope.
The sorrow has its proper place. Right between joy and glory.