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I don’t recall seeing any Protty hereon as seeing Christ on The Cross as a weakness or a defeat.

I do. Dr. Eckleburg routinely criticizes Catholics for using the crucifix, opposed to an empty cross.

No, Judith, Christ on the cross is the victory which has saved you and me.

But Christ's sacrifice is finished. He has risen. The good news of the Gospel is that Jesus Christ has appeared and acquitted His flock of their sins and saved them from eternal damnation. Praise God for His mercy.

Rome seems stuck on the bloody sacrifice and so it seeks to re-sacrifice Christ anew with every mass. And that is in direct contradiction to Hebrews.

Christ has risen. He's not on the cross anymore. He sits in heaven making footstools of His enemies.

This victory means something. Rome doesn't understand that. Rome tells its members to worry and fret about whether or not Christ's victory will ever apply to them when, if they would only read the Bible, RCs would know that Christ's victory most certainly applies to everyone who believes in Him as Lord, King and Savior.

"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36

I would that every Christian now alive in the flesh would receive God's blessed assurance.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. – John 5:24

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil. – 2 Th 3:3

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - I John 1:5-7

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. – John 10:3-5

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7

God's Name is I AM.