History of the Cross: The Pagan Origin and Idolatrous Adoption and Worship of the ImageCosimo, Inc., 2007 M04 1 - 108 pages In this, his only published work, devout Christian HENRY DANA WARD (1797-1884) exposes how the symbol of the cross, a pagan invention, has come to dominate Christianity, replacing a belief in the gospel with the worship of an idol. Christ's true cross, his suffering, was supplanted ages ago by the picture of the cross as an object of reverence, leading followers to kiss the feet of a statue of Christ and hope for miracles in its presence. Ward documents a variety of ways in which Christians were led to copy the rituals of pagans, all the while imploring them to give up their corrupted ways and return to the true teachings of Jesus. A compelling read first published in 1871, History of the Cross will be of interest to anyone wanting to know about the origins of Christianity. |
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... honour , and is worn for admiration , by a Catholic mul- titude , thinking that , with the apostle , they glory " in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ , by whom the world is crucified unto me , and I unto the world " ( Gal . vi . 14 ) ...
... honour , and is worn for admiration , by a Catholic mul- titude , thinking that , with the apostle , they glory " in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ , by whom the world is crucified unto me , and I unto the world " ( Gal . vi . 14 ) ...
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... honour ought to be paid to them ; not because it is believed that any divinity or power resides in them , on account of which they ought to be worshipped ; or because anything ought to be sought of them ; or because any con- fidence ...
... honour ought to be paid to them ; not because it is believed that any divinity or power resides in them , on account of which they ought to be worshipped ; or because anything ought to be sought of them ; or because any con- fidence ...
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... honour of the invisible God whose presence the idol was made to represent . All the heathen confess that their idols are only types of the divinities which they represent , while the deities themselves dwell in heaven . They think ...
... honour of the invisible God whose presence the idol was made to represent . All the heathen confess that their idols are only types of the divinities which they represent , while the deities themselves dwell in heaven . They think ...
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... honour the invisible God , their Redeemer . However well intended , it misrepre- sents the incomprehensible glory of " the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all " ( Heb . x . 10 ) , no less than the molten calf ...
... honour the invisible God , their Redeemer . However well intended , it misrepre- sents the incomprehensible glory of " the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all " ( Heb . x . 10 ) , no less than the molten calf ...
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... honour and with love , and even worship , an image of the barbarous instrument on which the Son of God poured out His life's blood at the hands of ambitious and envious murderers . Ye adorn your persons , your walls , your churches ...
... honour and with love , and even worship , an image of the barbarous instrument on which the Son of God poured out His life's blood at the hands of ambitious and envious murderers . Ye adorn your persons , your walls , your churches ...
Contents
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IMAGES AND LIKENESSES IN HOLY WORSHIP ABOMINABLE | 21 |
NICODEMUSHIS TESTIMONY TO THE POWER OF THE SIGN IN HADES | 28 |
WOOD IS WOOD WHETHER WORSHIPPED FOR THE CROSS OR FOR CERES | 35 |
FABLE OF HELENAS INVENTION OF THE CROSS | 41 |
HISLOPS TWO BABYLONS | 48 |
THE LATIN CROSS CONFRONTED WITH THAT OF CONSTANTINE | 56 |
CONSTANTINES VISION | 57 |
HIS DREAM | 65 |
THE GRADUAL CHANGE OF THE SIGN OF Christ X into | 73 |
THE LATIN | 80 |
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Popular passages
Page 8 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 9 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say : If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Page 8 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 15 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it shall live.
Page 80 - And he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast...
Page 19 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 84 - The Lord shall consume (him) with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy (him) with the brightness of his coming.