For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. I Corinthians 1:18
It is the fullness of life. Jesus took all my sin ( Galatians 3:13 ), and paid the penalty of eternal damnation for me ( Romans 6:23 ). In return, He made me the righteousness of God in Him ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ).
What is the meaning of the cross to you personally?
March 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
It is the fullness of life. Jesus took all my sin ( Galatians 3:13 ), and paid the penalty of eternal damnation for me ( Romans 6:23 ). In return, He made me the righteousness of God in Him ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ).
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It is the monad; the intersection between the mundane and divine. It is one of the oldest symbols in the world and can signify the elements, the compass, a sign that unites or divides. It is the shoal.
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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
Romans 1:16-17 (NIV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."[
1 Cor 1:18-19 (NIV)
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
Eph 2:13-16 (NIV)
Reconciliation to God through the Cross:
C S Lewis expands on the idea and shows why the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:
“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “
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