I see brain rot has be transferred from reddit. Christians worship the cross because it was Jesus’ death on it that gives salvation. It was through this death by man that forgiveness occured.
Someone told me Christians worship Jesus.
Actually worshipping the cross would be considered idol worship putting a thing before Jesus. No other gods before me and whatnot. I’m not Christian so I won’t claim to know.
It was also my understanding that Jesus suffered for humanities sins by bleeding from every pore in the garden of gethsemane. Is that different than salvation? Genuine question.
I was told the cross was a symbol that represented the intersection of the divine with the physical world, since Jesus said “into your hands I commend my spirit” or whatever.
Not an expert, just curious about the minor differences taught between the various Christian sects.
I’m not from Reddit either but my brain is still rotten, sorry.
I think anyone who thought just a bit about this would have realized that cross is nothing but some icon. Not really something to be worshipped.
The whole redemption scene is quite enigmatic to give meaning tbh, but one convincing explanation I’ve heard is that it is to “kill” self. Your ego is strong, and often blinds you, sometimes making you overly greedy. Only by murdering ego, one might be truly “grown up” and free from various chains. Maybe Jesus has gone through such a pain just to teach that? Well, idk.
Jesus was giving really explicit instructions on how to achieve salvation before they nailed him up there so I’m going to call your interpretation a swing and a miss. Sounds like one of those retcons that happened after the Romans took over the church like that whole wacky ‘let’s canonize Christ’s actual murderer and blame it on the Jews’ caper.