{"id":39906,"date":"2022-09-15T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sermonette-is-the-cross-an-acceptable-symbol\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:21:09","slug":"sermonette-is-the-cross-an-acceptable-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sermonette-is-the-cross-an-acceptable-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermonette: Is the Cross an Acceptable Symbol?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sermonette: Is the Cross an Acceptable Symbol? <\/p>\n

How Does God Want to be Worshipped?
#606Bs
Mike Ford (1955-2021)
Given 17-Apr-03; 16 minutes <\/h3>\n

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description: (hide) Mike Ford asserts that the sign of the cross is a pagan symbol used by the ancient Chaldeans to honor Tammuz – the sun god. Even if Jesus were crucified on a cross, it would be just as absurd to venerate this instrument of execution as it would be to hang little electric chairs, shotguns, or nooses from a necklace had they been used instead. Not until the sixth century did the Catholic Church officially venerate the crucifix, syncretizing pagan and "Christian" traditions. Cross veneration is a flagrant violation of the second commandment, and God hates idolatry. <\/p>\n

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Sermonette: Is the Cross an Acceptable Symbol? How Does God Want to be Worshipped? #606Bs Mike Ford (1955-2021) Given 17-Apr-03; 16 minutes listen: description: (hide) Mike Ford asserts that the sign of the cross is a pagan symbol used by the ancient Chaldeans to honor Tammuz – the sun god. Even if Jesus were crucified … Continue reading “Sermonette: Is the Cross an Acceptable Symbol?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}