Do You Glory in the Cross of Christ? - David L Antion - January 1975

David L Antion

The Apostle Paul wrote that the preaching of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness. He spoke of "enemies of the cross of Christ," "the offence of the cross" and the "shame of the cross," but he himself gloried in the cross of Christ. What is the right Christian attitude toward the cross of Christ? Two THOUSAND years ago, the cross didn't inspire religious awe or thoughts of the Messiah's atoning sacrifice. Instead, the cross inspired sheer terror. A crucifixion was a gruesome, torturous, and shameful way of dying - the lowest form of execution, reserved for traitors and hardened criminals. The Romans adopted this gruesome form of death from the Phoenicians, who actually impaled their victims on a straight, upright post. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library