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Again, the Church celebrates the Resurrection as the holiest day of the year so that should satisfy your question (not that you will admit it).

I know what they celebrate - you haven't satisfying anything because that's NOT the point. It's not what you celebrate but what you believe.

HE IS RISEN and the CC still has Jesus on the cross. IT IS FINISHED and Teachings of purgatory because one still has a sin debt, works needed for salvation - ALL are in opposition of what JESUS did at the Cross.

1 Cor 1:23: ": a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles"

Your use of Scripture is null and void. Until you throwing out man made teachings - you nullify God's Word. You can't post one thing as proof when not believing it's The Final Authority. we preach Christ crucified that part The Romans like - Resurrection Day means HE IS RISEN!

James 1:6 "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind."

James 1:7 "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord;"

James 1:8 "he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."

[mas cerveza por favor]

It's not what you celebrate but what you believe. HE IS RISEN and the CC still has Jesus on the cross. IT IS FINISHED and Teachings of purgatory because one still has a sin debt, works needed for salvation - ALL are in opposition of what JESUS did at the Cross.

I understand you disagree with traditional interpretations of James 2:14 (faith-works) and 1 Corinthians 3:15 (purgatory). However, I want understand your hang-up with just the crucifix before moving on to these related issues.

Why does the universal 2000-year custom of depicting Jesus on the cross lead you to believe that historical Christians reject the Resurrection and the full, completed Redemption? Do you think the crucifix is an attempt to freeze Jesus at that moment in time--to blot out what happen afterward?