A crucifix.
The cross was not only an instrument of death.
It was also an instrument of torture.
And we choose to hang a depiction of this torture-device on the walls of our homes and our churches.
Non-Christians think it's really weird. WHY would you do that? How could you wish to see that?
For example, David Denby wrote a review of Mel Gibson's Passion (in the March 2004 New Yorker) wherein he expresses horror over the torture, the scourging, the crushing, the nails, the blood.
Yes, the crucifix shows an instrument of torture.
But it shows me that it was MY torture that was due to me, and I don't have to endure it because Someone else did.
If you don't believe that, no wonder it seems weird to glory in the cross of Jesus.
The cross was not only an instrument of death.
It was also an instrument of torture.
And we choose to hang a depiction of this torture-device on the walls of our homes and our churches.
Non-Christians think it's really weird. WHY would you do that? How could you wish to see that?
For example, David Denby wrote a review of Mel Gibson's Passion (in the March 2004 New Yorker) wherein he expresses horror over the torture, the scourging, the crushing, the nails, the blood.
Yes, the crucifix shows an instrument of torture.
But it shows me that it was MY torture that was due to me, and I don't have to endure it because Someone else did.
If you don't believe that, no wonder it seems weird to glory in the cross of Jesus.
"The message of the cross is foolishness
to those who are perishing, but to us who
are being saved it is the power of God....
The things which are despised, God has
chosen" (1 Cor 1).
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