Highly suspicious that we elected this representation of this sacrifice without written approval by Jesus himself, ey?

Except earlier it said to have no idols. The cross is an idol. You can appreciate a sacrifice without using the tool that caused such sacrifice as a form of worship. If your father jumped in front of you and died to a gun shot, he sacrificed his life to save you and you would be appreciative. Would you then wear a gun necklace around your neck to show you love your dad and the sacrifice he made for you? By sanctifying his murder weapon?

If God is all powerful then why not just absolve us from the sin?

If this sacrifice was required, then he is not all powerful or he is into torture pron.

Yeah, none of that makes sense. How much do you have to disengage your intelligence to somehow believe in that baloney enough to actually rule your life by it? Seriously weird.

LIES THEY USED DIE FISHE SYMBOL IN ITS EARLIER LIFESPAN!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzNfvz-nyO4

Everything about Christianity is basically backwards from what Jesus actually fucking said.

No idolatry is the first commandment for a reason. People that worship the idol of the cross have already failed to learn what the religion was to teach.

Basically, look at Republicans. They absolutely worship the flag yet at the same time defile everything the country supposedly stands for.

No, it represents how Jezus died for our sins, so that we can be free to sin as we please.

Are their non man made religions I should know about?

I feel like dogs would have a good religion. I wanna subscribe to that.

Potential problem:

The Greek word that is, in basically every English translation rendered as 'cross'... does not actually specifically mean 'cross'.

The word is stauros.

What it literally means is roughly a wooden 'pole' or 'stake', and was colloqiually used at the time to just refer to any configuration of wooden poles upon which one would be crucified... which, while yes, were often in the shape of a cross, they also often weren't... maybe a T, or an X, or just a straight pole.

It was also used... I don't think in the New Testament, but other Greek writings from the same time... to just mean large pieces of worked wood used in construction, even just 'a tree', though those uses rely a bit more on the surrounding context.

The English 'crucify' is built on the assumption that it was an actual cross. In greek, the verb for 'crucify' is stauroo, unconjugated; 'to fasten to a stake or pole.'

... Its kind of like how 'Matthew' incorrectly translates the Hebrew word almah into the Greek word for 'virgin', when he quotes Isaiah 7:14 in Matthew 1:22-23, to say that Jesus' birth fulfils prophecy.

Almah, in Hebrew, just means 'young woman'... basically, of marriage age, so for the time, that would basically be... post-puberty, roughly 14, up to maybe early 20s.

It can mean 'virgin', but it does not specifically, necessarily mean 'virgin'... in roughly the same way in English, right now, a 'young woman' could be a vrigin, is probably more likely to be a virgin than an old woman, generally speaking... but it absolutely does not categorically mean 'virgin'.

That's definitely the intended meaning of wearing a cross, and a really powerful and important scripture.

It's worth remembering though that 'cross' isn't the word that Jesus said here but the Greek word recorded is stau·rosʹ which means execution or torture stake and the cross wasn't a contemporary use for impailment by the Romans, primarily because a stake was a much more painful death than a cross.

The cross was a pagan idol for many centuries before Jesus death and was later rolled into the account of Jesus' death by the later Christian Church to help with the conversion of those pagans.

So not like Jesus at all then

just another example of Christians cherry picking what they what to use from their religion and using it out of context to better serve their agendas.