The cross was a symbol of suffering and death. In the barbaric hayday of our past many were cursed to hang on a tree.
The thief crucified next to Jesus tells us that crucifixion was used to penalize a multitude of sins. How is it then that the cross became a symbol of everlasting life? Because Jesus Christ(ed) it. What do I mean? look at the Title “Christ” or Chris t (the t is the cross) this makes the translation chris cross, Which is what he did to the cross. He chris crossed it. to add to the irony of this look at the taking christ of of chrismas to become X mas. Malcolm X. Maybe I should take the christ out of christain and name the new religion the X ians.
X-mass is not taking Christ out of Christmas. X is the English derivative of the Greek letter “Key” which is mad like an X. It’s the first letter in the world Christos which is where we get the term “Christ.” Not taking him out it’s an abbreviation.
are you sure they didn’t have a crossed t like of letter in Latin before Jesus’? I think so.
I bet he bled all over it too
I’m pretty sure he just hung out.
Good thing they didn’t have the electric chair back then, or else Christians would be wearing electric chair necklaces today. Same with death by injection. Can you imagine Christian needle necklaces?
How dare you?! Imagine if Christ Killers stapled your Son to a crucifix!!!
Show some respect to Christ Our Lord Thy God!!! God ought to smite you for such a blasphemy! 
Blasphemy? Assuming that the Bible is 100% correct, it’s a perfectly true statement. He was most certainly hanging, that part is not in dispute, and if they kept them indoors, I’ve certainly never heard anything to the effect.
I will always consider information I don’t know. but I think I know my Greek letters and don’t remember “key”…maybe ki? but even so ,[size=150]Prophetic poetic’s poetic justice[/size]…[size=200]we’re saying the same thing "Chris Cross, Christ and X are synonomous[/size]
Prophetic poetic’s poetic justice…we’re saying the same thing "Chris Cross, Christ and X are synonomous.The cross After Christ is a symbol of life everlasting. Now, the whole issue of the crucifixion and it’s effect on the cross.Once being a tool for evil but now a sword for righteousness. A VERY POWERFUL WEAPON in the right hands.
Imagine a monolinth cross.Where people who have lost loved ones placed their disgust with the part of society that took their loved one away. createing one humungous monster that encompassed all of the ills of a society. This humungus monster will be seen as the lowest life form. We treat this lifeform like the plague and train up our kids not to be like the monster. We add to the description of the monster,the things we don’t want in society. But everyone must bear their own cross. everyone has something to add. something personal as your own deepest sin that you may regret.We put that on the cross too.We are called to crucify the flesh. Pick up thy cross and follow me…
I can’t tell what you are doing here. When they put Christ on the cross many thought they were putting something bad there to die. It seems a confused ritual to repeat their basic intention, but perhaps I don’t understand this part.
What the devil meant for evil…If mans intention is to kill,use that intention to stop him.
And yes we are putting something bad there to die
As far as I can tell, it is not the place of a Christian following Jesus, to send things to die, and it is a misuse of the spirit of Jesus’ act, to send bad things to die on a crucifix.
Through the same human behavioral function which facilitated the twin towers becoming a symbol for vigilance and solidarity in devoted resolve.
The difference in Christianity is that the tragedy was directly concerning the concept of death in physical, spiritual, social, and religious form.
It is also these deaths, all deaths, which the adherents believe to be capable of surpassing the binds of.
They purport to be capable of doing so directly based on this very event by proxy of their messianic Jesus which is either from their god, part of their god, or equally their god.
Due to such, the vigilant reminder of the tragic moment of unity among all Christians laterally becomes the single greatest representation of stoic sarcasm.
“Go ahead, make my (afterlife)”
The dumbest mistake someone made (by their judgement), was not letting Jesus die of old age.
When given a man willing to die, it’s better to make him part of your rule.
People much more easily forget the man that tried to become part of the system to bring about the change they all championed him for than if they make of him their iconic martyr of oppressive freedom.
If the Romans had seen a few modern day American presidential and congressional terms where heroes so quickly become devils, they may have ruled differently on such a figure as Jesus.
Jesus didn’t die symbolically, or die on a symbolic image. It was a execution. He did relatively little on the cross, he was already quite weak (spent some time out in the wilderness before this happened fasting) and was screwed around with by everyone. He mostly just, well, died. His death wasn’t a deep mystical, metaphysical thing- it’s the simplist thing to grasp in Christianity- he up and died like the rest of us, and it sucked. Only gnostics and muslims try to change things up here. Christians are quite secular when it comes to Jesus’ death, it was exactly that. Up and died.
Symbolism came later on.
Simply
He committed suicide by authority.
He knew the law and the punishment for breaking the law. No different than Osama Bin Laden.
So the cross was the cure for his mental illness.
How do you know these things? What evidence do you have to back up your claims? How do know Jesus intended to commit suicide? What law did Jesus break? How do you know what he knew? There is evidence that Bin Laden planned terrorist attacks that resulted in innocent death. There is no evidence that Jesus did. So you’re clearly wrong about there being no difference between Bin Laden. What are your grounds for claiming that Jesus was mentally ill and did the cross cure it?
Suicide is simply setting in motion events that will knowingly result in your own death."
I don’t see how this answers the question of the thread.
It addresses the same topic, but not the question.
The question at hand is essentially regarding how the cross was capable of transmorphic messianic iconification of salvation by relationship to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Even if this same person was suicidal and the cross cured any illness, this assessment seems to lack any offering of how exactly that would permit the transmorphosis of identification of the meanings of the cross by the adherent followers of Jesus over time.
What the cross actually did was not only sanction but glorify human sacrifice for forgiveness of sin.
Moreover, it defames God for requiring such a cruel atrocity.