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Posted on 04/10/2020 10:01:05 AM PDT by MurphsLaw
4 Reasons To Have A Crucifix In Your Home
1. We should have a crucifix in our homes because the saints have set this example for us.
2. It reminds us not to run from the tough stuff.
3. Our home is a “domestic church,” and it is a holy place.
4. The crucifix is a constant reminder that Christ has conquered sin and death, and ultimately conquered evil.
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Because GOD did not leave Jesus hanging on the cross.
It is a reminder what the Savior did for the love of our souls.
Amen!
“That looks more like a wound from a shotgun slug.”
well, it COULD be a SILVER shotgun slug ...
I have on in every room but the bathroom.
The crucifix in the kitchen is the one that was on my sister's coffin. She would be glad it was there. WHAT a cook she was.
They DO remind me of God's love...no matter what happens.
So then do you only read the Bible from the resurrection on?
Refuse to celebrate Christmas because he’s not a baby anymore?
Be honest- you don’t have a crucifix because it’s associated with the Catholic Church.
Statues are reminders...just like the statues in the parks. No one worships statues. If they do they are idiots.
Crucifixes are reminders of what Jesus endured for our salvation. I don't worship the crucifix.
Besides why would anyone try to change a Protestant? That would be disrespectful. Why would you be disrespectful of Catholic practices when you obviously aren't clear about them? Doesn't make much sense.
Might you be related to Sasportes?
That would have been up to the poster of the thread.
I will remain as an open thread.
Saying EVERYTHING MUST be in the Bible is a Protestant tradition.
Do you reject the Trinity? That’s not in the Bible.
Did the Apostles die? It doesn’t say they did. The story trails off in Acts. Does that mean they’re immortal?
Do you go to a church building for your services? A building is not in the Bible, heck driving in a car isn’t listed either. See how that works?
In fact the Bible says that not everything he said and did was written there, nor could it be. There are men that have teaching authority for this reason.
It’s odd that you fight against Mary and the Crucifix. It shows more of an animus against anything Catholic. And it’s odd that the article was about the benefits of the Crucifix but you use to rail against the Catholic Church.
Yes, Vampires, definitely.
“Unlike the Papists, we vett their claims...” I wonder? That’s a kind’a harsh reply Sas.
While a spiritual Christian, I haven’t found any organized “religion” that answers all my questions. The Book says He died in the afternoon - says nothing about Friday, but it’s Good Friday all over the world, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant alike. And he rose before the women arrived at the tomb on the morning of the third day, right? Therefore, Easter Sunday? Why is math so hard?
Studying the Hebrew calendar and High Holy Days (known as Sabbaths), and the likely date of the Passover meal in 33 AD (+/- 3 years) might shed some light in the dark minds that blindly accept whatever they are told - but, 3 days is 3 days. It’s a lot of heavy lifting and much easier to celebrate with Babylonian decorated eggs and a holiday named for a Pagan goddess (Eostre, Estre, Estara, Eastre, Ostara, or perhaps Astarte) than it is to reject “tradition”. (“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Colossians 2:8)
I didn’t say the graven image on the crucifix was the mark of the beast, just that to me, it hardly represents a risen’ Christ (as the poster alleged), just as Friday afternoon to early Sunday AM doesn’t represent “three days”, but to each his own ya’ll. I’ve read all the apologists and “Church Fathers” for decades and I’ve stunned wise men, theologians and scholars with “my understanding” which I readily admit, could be wrong but, it don’t matter at all. I’m not perfect, but I’m not a sheep, I’m deeply spiritual with an indwelling of The Holy Spirit, I’m a heretic to all, a lunatic to some - but, I’m saved and that’s all that matters. Don’t need no plastic Jesus on my dashboard or a day and a half resurection. Have a nice Pascha FRiends.
Discuss the issues all you want, do not make it personal.
Mind reading is making it personal.
No, because Jesus is not hanging on it any more.
You are probably a Catholic, to toss such an insult to a Christian woman. I am a Christian old man, and I have doors all through my house that have a cross pattern. I do not have a crucifix hanging around the house because He is no longer on the cross and has been changed from the body depicted in crucifixes into a glorified body which is not being portioned out for an imagined sacrament of eating His flesh. You can’t even see His flesh as He is now for He is physically in a completely different space and time coordinate system, so some proclaimed priest cannot serbe that glorified flesh to anyone because the priest cannot even see or feel that different coordinate system.
The Bereans in Acts 17 I mentioned, were not searching the scriptures to see if worshiping in a church building was in the Bible, or if a certain mode of transportation was in the Bible (you said cars).
The Bereans were anti-paganism Jews. They would have vetted the idolatry practised by Papists as smacking of paganism.
Papists are irritated with Protestants, like the Bereans, who see the Papacy as a paganized Christian institution.
“Protestantism is an effort to restore primitive Christianity free from all paganism.” Halley’s Bible Handbook, p. 758
That deception is well worn, that we Protestants are not ‘familiar’ with the idolatries of Catholicism. When you gaze upon a statute of the Catholic Mary, do you pray to her? Yes, if you are honest about it. That is making an idol out of a mere statue. Using statues of the Catholic Mary that way is on par with the Hebrews making their golden calf and praying to it while Moses was upon the Mountain with The Lord God.
And to you I say AMEN. Well said, sir
Do you think Jesus went to that cross to give your soul (behavior mechanism) eternal life? The Bible does tell you that it is the spirit of the born again in which puts His eternal life and abides there ... so the Apostles are eternally alive, awaiting their reunion with Earth where they will be given new, fit for eternal physical living, where the already eternally alive spirit will dwell in the Presence of The Lord.
See you in the clouds, sooner rather than later.
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