What is true power? Is it to be able to push people around, as a bureaucrat can? Is it to be able to control someone's access to the truth, as LBJ's administration did by concealing the cost of the "war on Poverty" AND the war in Viet Nam? That concealment led to us spending money and lives and losing both wars.
Our Lord showed TRUE power by revealing the truthof Sin and of the Suffering Love of God.
Some protestants see a man on a cross and think, "Weakness."They do not understand (neither do I!) Divine power. They think that God the Son of God on a cross is about weakness.
But True Power, God's power, is so unlike ours that to the unredeemed eye it looks like weakness.
and therefore they reject crucifixes. They don't know power when they see it.
Thanks for this excellent insight.
In other words, you have no idea why some Protestants reject crosses...
Most Protestant churches do display a Cross...An empty cross...Because Jesus is NOT on a cross...He is risen...
That's the power of God...
Some Protestant churches do not display a cross...They rightly believe that the cross was a shame...It was a curse...It was humiliation...
And yet they all preach the Cross of Christ...
No Protestant I have EVER heard of claimed Jesus was weak...
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.