Crucifixes - your opinion.

To understand our religions I think you need to go back to their creations most of the time. When our religion first became acceptable was with Augustus, my view points are they were probly looking to have an image to shock people into believing and that this gave birth to the crucifix. But on the other hand alot of protestants argue "why the crucifix, why the crucifix" while wearing a cross around their necks. When you get down to it arent we not suppose to worship any graven image? So why worship any object or images? I know people will say these things are sybols of our faith but in reality we are suppose to take the scriptures as symbols of our faith and wear the word of our religion before we uphold sysmbols as proof of our religion.

As with all religions, they are man made rules of tradition, how to worship God. They don't change. Once you are born again, as I am too, we come to know that the rules do not save us. We live by faith, of a living God. All we can do is to pray for unsaved, that their eyes be opened to the truth and the light. Please remember me when you choose "best response." Thank you, blessings dear.

Not only the cross, but they do worship alot of images. I think if they do follow what God has told them, then I think they know what is written on the ten commandments. I guess they are not aware what God has told them, instead they follow what men(priests) and the church had told them. And that is what I do not agree with the church. Not to mention those who give money for the church, Jesus said, Give your God what is to his, and give to cezar what is his'. It pertains to money, to who's face is encrypted on it, then it should be given to him. Give our Lord praise and worship, not money or any material things that this world has..

I somewhat dislike crucifixes.I was raised as an Orthodox,but my lover is Catholic.Now i will go on mined field:we beleive that there is a supperior entity..but we don't quite agree with what church is serving us 8 times/day.We beleive that Jesus was a prophet..a man and that it was realised pretty fast that you can manipulate thousands of people through religion.But i think i am getting off topic here :) The "corpse on a cross" whorship has a simple explanation.It'sthe easiest way to "remember what Jesus went through for the human kind".Christ's passions.I remember seeing at the news that some people go through crucifixion only to experience what Jesus felt when He was crucified.But those are fanatics(i guess).I almost forgot to say this too : they wear/have/worship the crucifixes to remember that "God sacrificed His only child for us". And that is one reason why they are worshipping a corpse on a cross.

I have to admit, I've always found it a bit sick. I mean surely there are so many much less morbid and cruel symbols.

they say it serves as a reminder. i heard that's what the crucifix and other images are for. but don't the bible clearly states against graven images? i hope people would look up for biblical basis of such things, especially those of tradition.

yes . i don't understand either.

I only have one crucifix, I just keep it because my great aunt was a hardcore Catholic and she loved her crucifixes, some of the women in my family inherited them. So I just hold onto it in her memory because it was important to her. She was a sweet woman and I think of her when I see it. The one I has contains water blessed by the Pope too, kinda neat. Other than that, I think I only have one cross in my home with Jesus on it, but I didn't buy it, a relative did. I think all of us have something in our house on display just because a relative bought it lol, never know when they are going to drop in!

Worshipping Jesus on Cross is a symbolization that we human beings crucified Jesus (GOD) & it is a grave mistake on part of humanity. When we worship then it is a realization that comes within us that we human beings are cruel & we should give up our narrow minds & think differently like Jesus. Jesus in spite of being GOD was crucified for which there was no need. So learn the leson of changing humanity completely towards love & fraternity & broad mindedness. The values of Jesus should be upheld & always remembered. GOD is no matter of Joke that's why we worship GOD / Jesus because he taught us being peoples as beutiful creations of GOD.

I think religious symbols are just that, religious symbols and some mean more than others to people. I understand your thinking about the the crucifix and agree that the cross is empty. On the other hand, when I see a crucifix I am forcibly reminded of the suffering that Jesus went through for my sake. The empty cross can be very benign to look at, as in taken for granted.

i don't agree with you.crucifixies are symbol of our christian faith.it is insane on your part to remove religious symbols like the crucifixes.this is what is happening in godless europe where crucifixies are not allowed in the classroom.i believe that we should not look on to see if someone is wearing a cross but we should be good and believe in jesus to go to heaven.jesus said i am the light and the way and noboddy goes to father(god)but through me.amen

I am also a born again christian and i like crosses for a reminder of what christ did for me and everybody else

I'm a devout Catholic. I think it's time the rest of my faith learned to worship an empty cross. It's time we took Jesus off the cross. Because like you said He has resurrected been after all. We do believe in a living God as well. And it's time we truly showed it by taking Jesus off the cross.

I respect you opinion regarding this and i have no intend to offend you because you are now a born again christian.... AS you said you were born a catholic and i hope that you still remember the culture that was feed to us... Your right that Jesus Christ is a living God and i have no doubt in it... The thing that God removed from the cross and came back to life... We all know that Jesus gave His life to save us from sins... That was for us... You will see people who do the same thing as putting them to the cross because they think that this is the only way for them to sacrifice... That was somewhere in Pampanga Philippines every holy week... Crucifixes reminds us how Jesus suffer for our sake... It tells us to be good and obey His commandments.. It reminds us how Jesus accept the pain and unacceptable words He received during that time... It reminds us how to be humble and having a good heart... Crucifixes awaken us from our mistakes and lead us to the right path...

I'm with you on this. I actually think a crucifix is creepy. I love a cross in fact I collect them. I had a crucifix that had a skull and cross bones on it which only made me think even more less of the Catholicism. That to me is so weird and I would like to know why they put that on it.

Almost every religious group has signs stories or muyths that they believe in or if to be accurate helps them remember or strongly identify them as a group. I really think that it does not matter as long as all religious groups are not fanatic and respect and forgive other people, no matter what religious group they belong to. I know that there are alote of things that i do not agree with or do not see as mine but i do respect it. As long as we remember that there is one god, and we all are humans everything will be fine.

For the people of God cross is our land mark not to wear but hold as testimony.Those who bear the cross really do not know the real significance of it.

For me the meaning of Crufixes is something to do with the salvation of human kind but for the catholic they just worship it buy ir self. for my own opinion it shouldn't be that. the reasons why i'm saying this because crucifix is just a man made thing and should not be worshiping it but rather we must worship the who crucify in the cross which is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior...