2025年1月26日 · We glory in the cross because it was the means of our salvation. As 1 John 3:16 tells us, the love of God is expressed to us, in part, in His laying down His life for us. We see in the cross God’s great love for us, and that’s why we “cherish the old rugged cross.”

2025年1月11日 · The Cross also is unripe and slender like the lotus, upon which a King was hung, which also acts as a shade tree of sorts to which all the nations press upon (cf. the Cross with Lamentations 4:20). And yet, the Cross, the slender and unripe oak of the King, (revealed by Scripture as the acacia,) which is pressed, and holds a remarkable and ...

2024年9月24日 · The chapter concludes with Yahweh(Jehovah) promising to destroy Israel for introducing such symbols,idols and practices into the worship of God. The ancient god Tammuz with the first letter or ‘Tau’ is thought by many scholars to be the origin of the cross. God never said it was acceptable to have these disgusting things “cleansed”.

2024年7月18日 · In one ancient synagogue excavated in 2000 in Sepphoris, Helios is transformed; instead of his image there is only a sun disk—driving the quadriga.a It’s almost as if the congregation was feeling a little guilty about having a picture of the sun god on the synagogue floor and alleviated their guilt somewhat by picturing only the sun itself driving its chariot …

2024年7月16日 · Before the cross gained prominence in the fourth century, the second-century church father Clement of Alexandria urged early Christians to use the dove or a fish as a symbol to identify themselves and each other as followers of Jesus. Archaeologists have recovered oil lamps and Eucharistic vessels in the shape of doves from Christian churches ...

2024年9月14日 · The Jerusalem Talmud summarizes the tradition that Isaac’s release is the equivalent of all Israel’s release. Abraham received from God, as a reward for his obedience, God’s own future intercession for Isaac’s descendants when they should fall into sin. Remembering the Akedah, God will suppress his wrath and have mercy on his people.

2024年8月6日 · Interesting article but I do not agree with the assessment that Jesus was not nailed to the cross through His hands. God’s Word is my final authority and Jesus Himself said He was nailed through His hands, not His arms. John 20:19-29 “And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side.

2022年4月20日 · A closer parallel is found among the Canaanite literature of ancient Ugarit. In this lengthy victory song, the Canaanite storm god Baal does battle with Yam, the god of the sea, before his throne is established on the heights of Mount Zaphon. Earthly rulers would commonly inscribe songs onto large stone monuments known as victory stelae.

2025年1月21日 · Both of these acts told in Gen 3 were manifested and came to fruiton at the cross. Repent and believe the Good news! God has provided the Christ, the son of the living God, who both God and Man led a sinless life and willingly offered himself up by dying on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins and then by rising from the dead He purchased ...

2025年3月15日 · The cross is the ultimate symbol for the crucifixion of Christ. I give out pennies with the cross punched in them and tell people whether you are an atheist, Muslim, Moonie, etc. you still know what that symbol means. So Christ did not die on a tree, pole, a ‘T’, but on a cross so that symbol would withstand the test of time.