@ chik001
cut abusive-words out of this discussion and be objective, concentrate on the issue you started concerning symbols and not calling people names.
besides, answer the question i asked you before your last post "what do christians use cross for?"
Am sorry if I used any abusive words. Cross is a symbol peculiar to Christianity.
The significant of
The Cross has a more personal and individual meaning to we Christians’. We use it as a symbol or an image for the path of transformation, for what it means to follow
Jesus The Christ. It means to die and rise with
The Christ.
Paul said:
"I have been
crucified with
Christ. It is no longer I who live, but
Christ who lives in me."
Galatians 2:20.
The cross to Christians’ is an image for that path of
Spiritual and
Psychological transformation that leads to a new identity and way of being.
perhaps you might have not seen this, but it's reality, the cherubim & seraphim church behind our home bows before the cross in the name of veneration same as the celestial churuch of christ close to my street; exactly like the idol-worshippers do. so i know no difference between the christian's cross and the pagan's idols.
or does it's use differ from one sect to another?The point here is that you just want to find a reason to
criticise.
I know that when you want to pray you face the east; which is the location of The Kabba or Mecca.
Now, does it mean that you are
bowing or
praying to the eastern wind,
Mecca or the
Kabba?
if no critics, one might see the truth but decide to persist on his own way or chose to be dogmatic.
the reason Muslims face the Kaaba direction is clearly stated in the Holy Qur'an while the cross itself remains a controversial issue among the christians because some like the "Jehovah witness" don't use cross and even say Jesus wasn't crucified; unlike among the muslims -they all face the east-direction.Here we go again...
In every faith there are dissidents or rivals who think they know better or have evolved from the former.
The
Jehova witness is to Christianity what
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is to Islam.
They
Ahmadiyya believe that the long-awaited Messiah has come in the person of
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who was born in 1835 and was deleted in 1908. So, because
Ahmadiyya believe that
Prophet Mohammed is obsolete, does that Islam less credible?
For your information; The
Jehovah witness are not the only dissident to and from
Christianity, let me number them for you and their alternative
HOLY BOOKS for the benefit of doubt:
1. The Gail message -
In the Light of Truth2.
Christ church of latter day saints -
The book of Mommon3.
ECKANCKER - The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, (
The Shariyat )
4.
Bahai faith - (
Kitáb-i-Aqdas)The book of Laws
5. The
Unification Church -
The Divine principle.
Many are still warming up...
TRUE
Christianity is not defined by People's action whether they believe in the Cross or not; neither will atheist's opinion.
...and The Church
Jesus said:
... and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18
Posted: at 23-08-2010 06:22 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac |
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