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If I were to pray to a wooden cross that I built and trust that the cross would answer my prayers?

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would God over look that act and see me as his child anyway and bless me with all the blessing as though I was praying to Him?

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  1. HA HA HA HA HA! You slay me brother. The cross is no ones answer to get blessings, or to be blessed, or Heaven! It's what happened on a cross and to whom it happened to! His name is Jesus, and for all there is to know of him (for now) see the Bible! You may start at the New Testament or maybe skip to the end and start with Revelation, but for sure read it. It just may save your life!


  2. If you have asked Jesus to be your Savior and Lord (been saved) then He will forgive you, but I don't really think He would count that as praying to Him.

    He only wants you to pray and trust in Him.

  3. Not all Christians pray to a cross. In fact, some of us don't even believe he died on a cross. Some believe he died on a stake that doesn't even resemble the cross that--what some believe--is a symbol for christianity.

  4. Even the cross, the very symbol of the CHristian faith, can be made an idol...and, that would accomplish it.

  5. Yes, and She would even let you think that it was the cross that was answering your prayers.  God is such a compassionate joker!

  6. If you only did it once, he would probably eventually forgive you.  If you kept doing it though, you would probably be disciplined as a child or disowned altogether...not sure which, since you know it is wrong already.  God takes idolotry seriously.  

  7. wait i'm not sure i understand... you want to pray to a stick, and then you want god to pretend you were praying to him and bless you or something..? wouldn't it just be easier to pray to god? it would be just as easy, plus you wouldn't have to take the time to build a cross

  8. Why True Christians Do Not Use the Cross in Worship

    THE cross is loved and respected by millions of people. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls the cross “the principal symbol of the Christian religion.” Nevertheless, true Christians do not use the cross in worship. Why not?

    An important reason is that Jesus Christ did not die on a cross. The Greek word generally translated “cross” is stau‧ros′. It basically means “an upright pale or stake.” The Companion Bible points out: “[Stau‧ros′] never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle . . . There is nothing in the Greek of the [New Testament] even to imply two pieces of timber.”

    In several texts, Bible writers use another word for the instrument of Jesus’ death. It is the Greek word xy′lon. (Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24) This word simply means “timber” or “a stick, club, or tree.”

    Explaining why a simple stake was often used for executions, the book Das Kreuz und die Kreuzigung (The Cross and the Crucifixion), by Hermann Fulda, states: “Trees were not everywhere available at the places chosen for public execution. So a simple beam was sunk into the ground. On this the outlaws, with hands raised upward and often also with their feet, were bound or nailed.”

    The most convincing proof of all, however, comes from God’s Word. The apostle Paul says: “Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: ‘Accursed is every man hanged upon a stake [“a tree,” King James Version].’” (Galatians 3:13) Here Paul quotes Deuteronomy 21:22, 23, which clearly refers to a stake, not a cross. Since such a means of execution made the person “a curse,” it would not be proper for Christians to decorate their homes with images of Christ impaled.

    There is no evidence that for the first 300 years after Christ’s death, those claiming to be Christians used the cross in worship. In the fourth century, however, pagan Emperor Constantine became a convert to apostate Christianity and promoted the cross as its symbol. Whatever Constantine’s motives, the cross had nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The cross is, in fact, pagan in origin. The New Catholic Encyclopedia admits: “The cross is found in both pre-Christian and non-Christian cultures.” Various other authorities have linked the cross with nature worship and pagan s*x rites.

    Why, then, was this pagan symbol promoted? Apparently, to make it easier for pagans to accept “Christianity.” Nevertheless, devotion to any pagan symbol is clearly condemned by the Bible. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) The Scriptures also forbid all forms of idolatry. (Exodus 20:4, 5; 1 Corinthians 10:14) With very good reason, therefore, true Christians do not use the cross in worship.

    Is veneration of the cross a Scriptural practice?

    1 Cor. 10:14: “My beloved ones, flee from idolatry.” (An idol is an image or symbol that is an object of intense devotion, veneration, or worship.)

    Ex. 20:4, 5, JB: “You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.” (Notice that God commanded that his people not even make an image before which people would bow down.)

    Of interest is this comment in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The representation of Christ’s redemptive death on Golgotha does not occur in the symbolic art of the first Christian centuries. The early Christians, influenced by the Old Testament prohibition of graven images, were reluctant to depict even the instrument of the Lord’s Passion.”—(1967), Vol. IV, p. 486.

    Concerning first-century Christians, History of the Christian Church says: “There was no use of the crucifix and no material representation of the cross.”—(New York, 1897), J. F. Hurst, Vol. I, p. 366.

  9. In the book of Jeremiah (or was that Isaiah?), God said through the prophet that only fools pray to things they themselves construct.  You cut down a tree, you use part of it to cook your food, you use more of it to heat your house, and you use the rest to build yourself a statue to pray to.  It has eyes, but it can not see.  It has ears, but it can not hear.  It has a mouth, but it can not talk.  It has arms, but it can not pick up anything.  It has feet, but it can not move.  It is dumb, and all who worship it are dumb.

    Why would you even want to pray to a wooden cross?  You should be ashamed of yourself!  That's idol worship on your part!

  10. You would be worshipping an idol. God wants you to talk to Him directly, not through anything. You can pray any time, any where. Isn't that show how loving He is. The only person keeping you from talking to Him is yourself. Nice that you made the cross, but just put it on a shelf to help you remember Jesus Christ and how He suffered for all your sins in the Garden of Gesthemane and shed a few drops of blood for you, died on the cross and was ressurected so you one day too will be ressurected. Isn't that just the greatest news!!!

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  11. He could probably care less, as he probably doesn't exist, but it  sounds like Idolatry to me.  you trust in the cross to answer the prayers not god.  Might as well smelt your own golden calf, or start worshiping the sun.

  12. Christians do not pray to the cross. We pray to Jesus, who is God, who died on a cross. The cross in a Parish or the one someone wears around their neck is not the thing we worship, it is merely a symbol to remind us of Jesus' sacrifice.

  13. it would do you as much good to pray to wood as it does to pray to any god.

  14. He would look at you the same way He does people who pray to Mary or other things not spoken about in the Bible.  It would be useless.

  15. Like the Druids, you could just pray to the tree and save time and also not kill it. After all, wood is wood.

    The reformed Druids can also pray to bushes.

  16. No.  You would be worshipping an idol, graven image.  You knew that though.

  17. It really depends on what religious affiliation is answering, personally I would consider it Idolatry, akin to Animism. That doesn't make me right but it does make it right for me.

  18. Don't you think that you might be guilty of worshiping an idol?  
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