CROSS REMOVAL

I Was Just Thinking About – CROSS REMOVAL.

The focus of Biblical Christianity is the Cross. Not as a physical or material symbol, but as a place of capital punishment and execution. It represented the place of intense suffering and torturous death. It was the place where Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became the sacrifice for the sins of those who would believe in Him. However, that which the cross symbolizes for Biblical Christianity, is totally opposite to the views of Atheism and the Humanist movement.

In Pensacola, Florida, the following occurred on June 19, 2017: “A group of Pensacola residents, represented by the American Humanist Association and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, sued the city in 2016 seeking the removal of the cross, calling its placement on public, government-maintained property unconstitutional…The 34-foot-tall white concrete cross has stood in the popular park since 1969, and replaced an earlier wooden cross on the same site which was erected in 1941.” The response of one of the groups states: “We are pleased that the court struck down this cross as violative of the First Amendment,” said Monica Miller, Senior Counsel at the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center. The cross was totally unavoidable to park patrons, and to have citizens foot the bill for such a religious symbol is both unfair and unconstitutional.”

What is conveniently ignored in the First Amendment to the Constitution is that it espouses Freedom OF Religion – not Freedom FROM Religion. While the Humanist Association champions its “religion”, the Biblical Christian view is silenced. It would be refreshing to hear someone declare a foundational truth of Biblical Christianity by emphasizing the words I Corinthians 1:18-24, “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…Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

Psalm 14:1-3 should also be noted: “The fool says in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Prayerfully – consider these things with me.