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- From: pst@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter Stephen Thomas Iii)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Why the Cross?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 09:50:15 GMT
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- In article <30DEC199213204214@jane.uh.edu> lib1p@jane.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
- >Anyway Peter, it is a fallacy to use the bible as your only source. It has
- >been written and rewritten and added to and taken away from and translated
- >into so many different languages from so many different languages and been
- >reworked like so much play-dough....well you get the picture.
- >
- >Go back and study the time period from about, oh, 50 BC to about 300 AD.
- >After you do that then go and read the bible, placing the words in context
- >to the time period. A whole new picture will arise in your mind.
- >
- >Tammy
- >
-
- Hmmm, I don't think I explained myself well enough. What I'm trying to get
- at is this: the major point of Xianity is the sacrafice of Jesus's life for
- the redemption and cleasning away of sin from humanity.
-
- The symbol for that sacrafice is the cross upon which he died. Therefore,
- the symbol for Xianity is the cross or the crucifix.
-
- My point in bringing up that quote from the Bible was to point out the idea
- behind the sacrafice "God gave His only son . . . "
-
- I quite agree with you re biblical translations, after the number of
- translations are revisions the Bible has been thru, to rely on it as The
- Literal Truth would be a big mistake.
-
- One other point, something that always seemed odd to me: there is so much
- emphasis upon the death of Jesus, but little on the truly big event, his
- resurrection 3 days later. That, to me, seemed the biggest, most important
- event in the life of this prophet, yet in many contemporary re-tellings of
- the tale, this point is most decidely ignored. Commentary?
-
- Peter Thomas
-
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