(June 13, 2014 at 10:37 am)Revelation777 Wrote:(June 13, 2014 at 9:47 am)Chad32 Wrote: That makes me wonder how much Jesus actually likes the idea of the cross being the holy symbol for his followers. That can't have been a fun experience for him, but they focus more on his death than his actual resurrection. You'd think the christian holy symbol would be a tomb with an open door, since that's really the important part. It's not that Jesus taught some good things and then got killed. It's that he rose from the dead to show he wasn't just another wandering teacher with some progressive ideas.
Yet it's the cross, and not the tomb, that they use for their holy symbol.
Good thought. My guess is the cross is where the victory of sin was won, and the tomb, the victory over death.
My guess is the cross and the tomb were both chosen by the passive aggressive pothead herds of the make belief shepard for their shock value to the somewhat more urbane and respectable culture of the roman world.