To: Natural Law
Consider that it was designed to be observable from 30,000 ft. 500 years before the invention of aircraft. It is a tribute to God, not those inside the building.A tribute to God??? The cross was a shame and a curse to God...You think He wants to be reminded of the pain and shame He went thru??? Even after He said, 'It is finished??? He might figure you guys are mocking Him...
5,382 posted on
01/21/2010 5:51:45 AM PST by
Iscool
(I don't understand all that I know...)
To: Iscool; Natural Law; wagglebee
The cross was a shame and a curse to God...
So, is that really what you think? God feels no shame to become a mortal, so why do you ascribe this human emotion to Him?
5,393 posted on
01/21/2010 6:18:35 AM PST by
Cronos
(Philipp2:12, 2Cor5:10, Rom2:6, Matt7:21, Matt22:14, Lu12:42-46,John15:1-10,Rev2:4-5,Rev22:19)
To: Iscool; Natural Law; markomalley; Judith Anne; Running On Empty; Petronski; Mad Dawg; Cronos; ...
The cross was a shame and a curse to God...You think He wants to be reminded of the pain and shame He went thru??? What bizarre sect taught you this?
Do you somehow think that the Lord was forced against His Will to be crucified?
And if He considers the Cross "a shame and a curse" why did He say this:
Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (Matthew 16:24)
5,404 posted on
01/21/2010 6:26:13 AM PST by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Iscool
Take it up with St. Paul:
1 Corinthians 1:23
-But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:
Galatians 6:14
-But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
5,414 posted on
01/21/2010 6:42:50 AM PST by
TradicalRC
(Secular conservatism is liberalism.)
To: Iscool
The cross was a shame and a curse to God...That bit of theology is profoundly defective.
5,419 posted on
01/21/2010 6:52:11 AM PST by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: Iscool
A tribute to God??? The cross was a shame and a curse to God...You think He wants to be reminded of the pain and shame He went thru??? Even after He said, 'It is finished??? He might figure you guys are mocking Him... "To that old, rugged Cross
"I will ever be true
Its shame and reproach gladly bear.
Then He'll call me someday
To His Home, far away
Where His Glory forever I'll share....
So I'll cherish the old, rugged Cross
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It's not theology, just heart-wrenching music.
Here's another one:
Jesus, keep me near the Cross,
There a precious fountain
Free to all, a healing stream
Flows from Calvary's fountain.
In the Cross, In the Cross
Be my glory, ever
Till my raptured* soul shall find
Rest, beyond the river...
*raptured, to me means taken up to Christ after death. Whatever it means to somebody else, immaterial to me. Now I suppose I'll be said to mangle the theology of hymns...
5,434 posted on
01/21/2010 7:55:17 AM PST by
Judith Anne
(Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
To: Iscool
"The cross was a shame and a curse to God..." And God told you this, just you? Next time you talk to him you should ask him for the winning lottery numbers....LOL
5,475 posted on
01/21/2010 10:06:54 AM PST by
Natural Law
(God always answers your prayers. Sometimes the answer is "no",)
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