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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:51:37 GMT
- References: <C01Koo.B93.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1hse5hINN940@uwm.edu> <30DEC199213204214@jane.uh.edu>
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- In article <30DEC199213204214@jane.uh.edu> lib1p@jane.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
- >In article <1hse5hINN940@uwm.edu>, pst@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter Stephen Thomas Iii) writes...
- >>In article <C01Koo.B93.1@cs.cmu.edu> drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes:
- >>>>In the early days of Xtianity the cross was not worshipped. In fact
- >>>>it was a point of shame that their Christ was crucified. It was a
- >>>>social stygma to be associated with someone who was crucified. And
- >>>>it was a way of vilifying (sp) the person who was sentenced to death.
- >>>
- >>
- >>I thought that the cross, as used by the Xians was a symbol of the sacrafice
- >>that Jesus supposedly made of himself to the world.
- >>
- >>". . . gave His only begotten Son etc, etc, etc, . . . "
- >>
- >>Peter Thomas
- >
- >Funny thing just happened to me. Despite knowing this quote in my sleep for
- >the better part of my 28 years in this life...at this moment I find that I
- >can't pull it up....darn! What good is all that Xtian upbringing if it's
- >going to fail you in your moment of need....:)
-
- Isn't it John 3:16, the quote that that yahoo with the rainbow hair used
- to hold up at football games until he got arrested for trying to rob a
- store or something? "For God so loved the world that He gave His only
- brgotten son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not die but live
- forever," roughly.
-
- Blessings,
- Janis
-
-