The Cross Stabbed the Sheep-Looking Creature!

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Yeah I hear you, but it's too late to change that one - even Paul spoke of affectionately of the work of the cross.

Exactly. The cross is what Paul said he gloried in. The cross is an indication of the entire concept of why Christ died and what His death accomplished. It's not the criss-cross beams we are supposed to consider, but the meaning behind what His death accomplished. I do not believe crosses are supernatural and good-luck charms made into religious talismans, but the idea of the "cross" in the Bible is very prominent and the salvation work of God is often encapsulated simply by referring to "the cross".

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Anyone know the history of how he cross became our symbol of Christianity?

It is because of the words Paul used in the New Testament. He spoke of the cross all the time. Same principle. He never meant wear a cross, but the principle in why he said it is repeated in why people wear them. Just like yourself asking why it became a symbol, people lost the meaning of what the reference to the cross stands for in the Bible, and they look at it as jewelry Christians wear.