Mormons agreeing with John Calvin ping.
How is this different from Protestant views toward the Catholic Crucifix?
As though Catholics don’t believe in the Risen Christ....
Without the cross, we’re still dead in our sins. I’ll take the cross, thank you.
I’m told the spire at the top of Mormon places of worship represents their aspirations to elevate themselves up to the level of their god. Their god was once a human and did the same.
The Old Rugged Cross
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
Refrain
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.
O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.
Refrain
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
Refrain
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.
Refrain
Words & Music: George Bennard, 1913
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAB41b3gNU0
HANG ON!!
There is probably a lot more that the Mormon Organization® has not informed you about!
We don’t do crosses much in the PCA church, at least not in the ones I’ve gone to. Maybe others do.
I was always creeped out by the churches where they still show Christ on the cross.
Gee, thanks for uniting in Christ. This thread was a real blessing.
Here it is. It is the first post included in the next thread right after this one under religion. :)
Open threads are a town square. Antagonism though not encouraged, should be expected
Posters may argue for or against beliefs of any kind. They may tear down other’s beliefs. They may ridicule.
On all threads, but particularly “open” threads, posters must never “make it personal.” Reading minds and attributing motives are forms of “making it personal.” Making a thread “about” another Freeper is “making it personal.”
When in doubt, review your use of the pronoun “you” before hitting “enter.”
Like the Smoky Backroom, the conversation may be offensive to some.
Thin-skinned posters will be booted from “open” threads because in the town square, they are the disrupters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~religionmoderator/
Thin-skinned (emotional, whiney or mercurial temper) posters are the disruptors on open threads.
bfl8r