Why do people worship idols or crosses?

the mom

if your friend died with a gun, would you wear a bullet around your neck. or your friend was killed with the electric chair, would you wear a chair around your neck. people say they don't worship the cross or idols, but they do. look in many churches, there are many idols in the church and people wear fancy crosses around there neck. please read Psalms chapter 115 verses 4-8. please no rude comments
please read those scriptures in the king james bible
how do you think Jesus feels when he sees people worship the cross or idols?

Answer
First let me say Christ never died on a cross. Crosses are Pagan originated. So using it is not only reproachful but also disrespectful. Christ died upon a tree or an upright pole. Found a very detail article...not from the Watchtower site. For those who seem to disagree with it not realizing Jehovah's Witnesses upon acknowledging this false practice, let it be known to all.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/218795/the_origin_of_the_cross_symbol_used.html?cat=34

Quotes from the article...pages 1 & 2

It is not likely that Jesus actually hung on a cross at all but instead hung on a tree, stake, or pole. The original gospels written in Greek used the word "stauros" to refer to the structure used for execution. This word means a vertical pole with no crossbar. Jesus may have been hung on a tree (Acts 5:30) (1 Peter 2:24)

Since crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian Sun-god, it could be said that Constantine was a Sun-god worshiper! As you can see, the symbol of the cross dates back to pre-Christian times. The words "cross" and "crucify" are nowhere to be found in the Greek of the New Testament. They are mistranslations. Constantine was a big instigator in uniting Sun worship and Messianic Faith. In order to increase the prestige of the church, he allowed pagans into the churches along with their signs and symbols. The "T", or cross, was one of these symbols. It seems Jesus and "cross" are not really linked at all.

What does the bible says about Idols or images in worship to him?

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

Even various people, particularly the Rock Stars, bikers even some Satanist tattoo the symbol of a cross. Are they God fearing? Just think it is due to it's Pagan origin.

Ex. 20:4, 5, JB: âYou 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.â (Notice that God commanded that his people not even make an image before which people would bow down.)

(Psalm 115:4-8) Their idols are silver and gold, The work of the hands of earthling man.  5 A mouth they have, but they cannot speak; Eyes they have, but they cannot see;  6 Ears they have, but they cannot hear. A nose they have, but they cannot smell.  7 Hands are theirs, but they cannot feel. Feet are theirs, but they cannot walk; They utter no sound with their throat.  8 Those making them will become just like them, All those who are trusting in them.

(Ezekiel 8:13-14) 13 And he continued on to say to me: âYou will yet see again great detestable things that they are doing.â 14 So he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Jehovah, which is toward the north, and, look! there the women were sitting, weeping over the [god] Tamâ²muz.

In ancient Israel, unfaithful Jews wept over the death of the false god Tammuz. Jehovah spoke of what they were doing as being a âdetestable thing.â According to history, Tammuz was a Babylonian god, and the cross was used as his symbol. The cross origin comes from him, a pagan sun god who's name began with "T".

(Acts 17:29) âSeeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man.

(Galatians 3:13) Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: âAccursed is every man hanged upon a stake.â (What happened to Christ was not something to be venerated, he was done unjustly. It was reproachful to God! It was considered a bad thing, that is why it uses the word accursed.) The fact that he died in our behalf is to be remembered and appreciated by our actions; not by what man done to him out of ignorance.)

(John 4:24) God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.â

tattoo rant?

John

So hear me out. I do think tattoos are very sexy on women. a lot of people are getting tattoos all the time. a lot of my friends. tattoos can look great. I support people doing whatever they want to do with they're body.

Tattoos are sexy on women to an extent. The only thing is that a lot of the girls just want more and more tip they look bad. I've dated girls with tats. they look sexy but they show me pics of girls like kat von d and other girls who are covered head to toe in tattoos. and they say they want to look like that. and honestly kat von d looks not very sexy at all. its like too much. so many once super hot girls become just not sexy with that many tattoos. thats my deal sometimes. it just seems like girls who get them look sexy at first but once they get em they start just wanting more and more til they look horrible.

what are you're guys thoughts? I know people are free to express themselves but I feel like people now a days are just gonna over do it.

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I think women with tattoos look sexy. I have a few but would like more. But I do think that a woman crosses a line when they have them on there chest and neck. Those places seem abit blokey for me. But each to their own lol x

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Where is the most attractive spot for a woman to have a tattoo? Where is a good spot for a tattoo in general?

cross tattoos for women neck image

Andrea

I can't decide where on my body to get these tattoo's done. I'm getting a good sized flower (but its not a stupid one, its really pretty... i hear someone say they are getting a flower tattoo and i think 'why something so stupid?' but i've found one i really like). Also i'm going to get a cross and then falling stars or shooting stars. its my christmas present to me. where should they go? where should i go!? i live near detroit... any suggestions?

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Center the flower on the small of your back.
Put the cross just about where a cross would rest if it were hanging off a chain and the shooting star could go across your right shoulder, aimed at your neck.

Question about spies and concentration camps during WWII?

G.P.

Hello, I am writing a movie script and I have a couple of questions about the holocaust in WWII.

1. Would a captured spy ever be sent to a concentration camp?

2. And how would the numbers on the forearms be assigned?

Thanks in advance!

Answer
The execution of women by the Nazis

Among the most notable resistance movements were the Yugoslav Partisans, the Polish Home Army, the Soviet partisans (at varying periods, each of them could be seen as the largest resistance movement in World War II),[a] the French Forces of the Interior, the Italian CLN, the Norwegian Resistance, the Greek Resistance and the Dutch Resistance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_during_World_War_II

Since they were partisans the custom was to execute them immediately in the field so tattoos were unnecessary, that was done only in the camps and these executions were carried out in the field. This is a tribute to the amazing courage of so many young women during World War II who were put to death for plotting and fighting against the Nazis, as resistance fighters, partisans and activists in towns and concentration camps.
It is estimated that more than 4,000 women of various ages were hanged by Nazi forces between 1939 and 1945. Many more were shot or guillotined and many were tortured before minimal or non-existent trials. They could be sentenced to death by People's Courts and executed within prisons, by the commandants of concentration camps or by military commanders in the field and summarily executed, usually in public. Some of these "field" executions were documented and photographed. A lot of the photographs were private snaps taken by individual soldiers and discovered after they had been captured or killed. Hanging was the preferred method for the execution for partisans as it produced more of a public spectacle than shooting and was used to terrorize the local populace as well as entertain the troops. Guillotining within prisons was used for German citizens convicted of treason and other offenses after trial by the People's Courts.

Executions in the field.
A gallows was used when the Nazis wanted to make a particular example of the prisoner and these were usually crude and simple structures that did not have a trapdoor or drop. They typically consisted of just a post with a short beam projecting from the top cross braced to the upright. Trees or balconies were also used as was any other structure that was available, e.g. the roof beams of a barn.

Prisoners were never hooded and rarely blindfolded. Their hands were normally tied behind their backs with cord but their legs usually left free. They were given little or no drop, partially to prolong the pleasure of the soldiers and because their cruel and slow deaths would act as a stronger deterrent to the local people who were often made to witness the event. Typically a thin rope was used, fashioned into a simple slip knot. It was not unusual for prisoners to kick and struggle after suspension and to lose control of their bladders and bowels. The bodies could be left hanging for several days as a grim reminder to others. In cold weather, they were sometimes left hanging for a week while in summer they would be taken down sooner, perhaps two to three hours after the hanging.

This is a very short list of Polish partisans executed during the Holocaust. There were many more in other occupied countries. Masha Bruskina, Klava Nazarova, Maria Kislyak, Lepa Radic, Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, Vera Voloshina, Mala Zimetbaum, Roza Robota, Ala Gertner, Lilo Hermann, Mildred Harnack, Eva-Marie Buch, Cato Bontjes Van Beek, Elizabeth Gloeden, Gertrud Seele, Ilse Stöbe, Sophie Scholl â guillotined in Munich, Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn and her friend Renate von Natzner , who were convicted of spying and beheaded by the executioner, Carl Gröpler, on the 18th of February 1935.

Guillotinings could be carried out at three minute intervals. Hangings were notably cruel, the prisoner was led in with their hands tied behind them and made to get up onto the two step step-up, the executioner following them and placing the thin cord slip knot around their neck. They were not hooded or blindfolded. The executioner got down and simply pulled the step-up from under them leaving them suspended with little or no drop.

gatita

Degree in History (focus Jewish studies) and Spanish, New Mexico State U. 1990

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