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This is not an article about why The Christian Cross Is Pagan. That has been amply proved in the article of that title by Crystal. Nor is this an article on why, even if the cross WEREN’T pagan, you shouldn’t worship it. Because having pictures or symbols, even of the TRUE Jesus, are a SIN! And God does not want you even revering a picture of HIM!

Deuteronomy 4:12, 15-16 (BBE) And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice. … So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort … So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

God said that when He, PERSONALLY spoke to them from Mt. Sinai, that they did NOT see Him! That He made CERTAIN that they saw NOTHING but a cloud on that day, and made sure that they COULD NOT SEE ANY PART OF HIM, because He knew that if they saw ANYTHING they would corrupt themselves and make an image of it! and He did not want even a picture or symbol of HIMSELF to be reverenced!

But as I said, this article is not about that, that subject is amply covered in my article “Pictures of Jesus Are A Sin!“. No, this article is for people who understand both - but just don’t really care. Or who think that it’s OK to use this symbol as long as we use it, “for Jesus”. This article demands of you WHY would you even WANT to worship the Cross! Why! Even if it WEREN’T pagan, and even if God DIDN’T hate it! Why would you WANT to? Think about it! Read the rest of this entry »

I have said before - and correctly - that it is possible to be perfect. Otherwise God wouldn’t have commanded people to do it (Genesis 17:1, Deuteronomy 18:13, Matthew 5:48, etc), praised people who DID it (Job 1:8) and been mad when people didn’t do it (Revelation 3:2).

Not to mention the fact that it would be most capricious of God to command someone to do something that they couldn’t do. It would be like asking your three year old child to ride a bicycle - then being angry when he failed!

And yet every single time I tell someone all this, they throw up a mental block and scream “But you CAN’T be PERFECT!!” They demand answers to questions like “are you telling me you can go ONE SINGLE DAY without sinning? Without even THINKING a bad thought?” “And what about Paul, who in Romans 7 berated the thoroughly UNperfect nature of himself?” “And 1 John 1:8 says that if we say we don’t have sin, the truth is not in us!”

And it is for those people that I now thoroughly define “perfect”. Perfect does not mean without carnal nature. Christ was “perfect”, and yet he had human nature just like we do. Read the rest of this entry »