[Petronski]

It’s hard to impossible for me to imagine Him exalting in an image of Himself still on a cross.

You do not think Christ would exalt in an image portraying the sacrifice He made to redeem us.

Odd.

[Quix]

PERHAPS

this thought experiment will pry loose a few extra synapses . . . toward increased understanding of my perspective.

PRETEND . . .

since some seem to think that I’m the chief torturer anyway . . .

JUST IMAGINE, PRETEND, that I was the fellow who’d put YOU on such a cross and tortured you to death.

Would YOU then TREASURE a brass reminder of Quix’s treatment of you?

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I realize that given various givens, I may never live down this THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ILLUSTRATION . . .

however, in the interest of theological understanding, I’ll yet again put myself on the line even with some of the hostile cliques.