Because He won victory over the Cross and death! Taking Him off the Cross, meant victory for us! Tell me, when you watched “The Passion of the Christ”, were you doing cartwheels, and saying , "Whoo, hoo, crucify Him again!?"The Cross itself is a POWERFUL reminder of pain, shame, agony but most of all, L-O-V-E! And I know what it did for me, don’t need the crucifix! You can wear it though!
Indeed, yes. This is a very common misunderstanding about God’s love.
When Christ was removed from the cross the victory was already won. It was won while He was on the cross, not after.
Yes, G-4 …
How can it repulse you to see your Lord giving you His ultimate act of love on the cross? Is it repulsive to see the lamb of God slain for us sinners? Is it repulsive to see God die a willing death because of His love for us? Is it repulsive to witness the suffering of Christ, take pity on Him, and be reminded of all our sins that have brought Him there?
Likewise, a great many of us know about the resurrection of Christ, without the aid of an empty cross! But we choose to remember the person on the cross, rather than the empty cross. We choose to worship the person who died on the cross for us, rather than the empty cross from which He rose. God’s willing death for the sake of sinners marvels me more than His resurrection from the dead. After all, if God is God, of course He can rise from the dead. But for God to die for love of sinners, now that is something to remember and to meditate on day after day!
And so we should believe that these are a representation of Christ then? When they look so different from each other? Isn’t easier to look at the Word and see his image?It’s called the Shroud of Turin.
There is also Veronica’s Veil - the one that she wiped His face with, when He was on the way to Golgotha.
I thought Christ was taken off the cross and buried.
When I met Jesus, He was off the Cross and risen! His death on the Cross was not beautiful, but it was powerful!
And it was not the nais that kept Him there, it was His love for US! In away, it is like the memorial for 9/11. Instead of looking at rubble and twisted steel, we see a monument to those who died on that day.
It is painfully clear, that Christians worldwide will be divided, until we stand together on that Golden shore. Each one of us is an individual, and has free will, a “gift” from God.We pledge allegiance to the same Saviour, but through the years have decided that for whatever reason, we believe certain things differently. We(noncatholics) who do not believe in crucifixes, also worship the King, who was slain on that ugly old piece of wood, which has grown in beauty, as we draw closer to Him. When we wake up on Easter morning, we see the same thing those who were around Golgotha saw: an empty Cross; and subsequently,an empty tomb! So, the debate rages on(perhaps a subject for another thread), crucifix or no crucifix? God bless you, my fellow Christian!
The victory was complete, when He rose from the dead! And to do that, He had to be taken off the Cross! It is ironic, to say the least, that instead of His disciples and other followers, He was removed from the Cross by two Pharisees!
Did Christ say “it’s finished” while still on the cross?
Yet you still claim i keep Him on the cross by depicting Him crucified.When I met Jesus, He was off the Cross and risen! His death on the Cross was not beautiful, but it was powerful!
Well of course He said,"It is finished while still on the Cross! But He had to be buried in order to achieve victory over the grave, such as we will when we die! So, He had completed almost all of His work, and then was buried, and rose again, as prophesied, on the third day. Why does the Bible say that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimethea wwere Jewish leaders of the Pharisees?
I don’t need to,even though I did put Him there through my sins! He is seated at the right hand of God, right? I derive no pleasure from reliving the most hideous death of all time. I do however know that without it, I would still be lost!
Only two of the gospel writers say much about who those that buried Christ were…St.John tells us that they were followers of Christ. And Joseph had no part in the decision to crucify Jesus…read the words written not want you want to see.
I did read the words, and I know that before they began following Jesus, they were devout Pharisees!
Then there is no irony that they buried Jesus being His followers.
Now St.Matthew paints a bit different picture then you are telling us…Upon Christ’s death the bodies of many saints arose.
JL: Really where does it say that is scripture? So you agree, when a saved persons sins, they lose their salvation and MUST repent and confess to be RESTORED. I thought OSAS was, you were NEVER saved in the first place. According to OSAS the Prodigal could NOT have been a true son, saved, in the first place, because if he was he lost his salvation. Just like that street preacher who became an atheist, your first post said he was not saved, when called on it you made the excuse, I don’t know the man.
