RAMcGough wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:43 pm
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You said "you mean crucifiction? (since the crucifixion is not firmly established fact )".
That sounds like denial to me. If that's not what you meant, you need to learn how to communicate better. You're wasting my time with very misleading comments.
All the stories around the crucifixion are made up, fiction, metaphorical, from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem unto the finding of an empty grave.
They serve the purpose of illustrating that man, although only created on the sixth day as crown of creation, was as resurrected one already present on the first.
RAMcGough wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:43 pm
So you're accepting that as a historical fact while denying the crucifixion is a historical fact?
is also metaphor
also in Mark, in the question about paying taxes to Caesar
Mark 12:13,
οἱ δὲ ἤνεγκαν. καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς,
Τίνος ἡ εἰκὼν αὕτη καὶ ἡ ἐπιγραφή; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν αὐτῷ, Καίσαρος.
εἰκὼν , like the image of the beast, Revelation 13:14-15,
καὶ πλανᾷ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς διὰ τὰ σημεῖα ἃ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ποιῆσαι ἐνώπιον τοῦ θηρίου,
λέγων τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ποιῆσαι εἰκόνα τῷ θηρίῳ ὃς ἔχει τὴν πληγὴν τῆς μαχαίρης καὶ ἔζησεν.καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ δοῦναι
πνεῦμα τῇ εἰκόνι τοῦ θηρίου, ἵνα καὶ λαλήσῃ ἡ εἰκὼν τοῦ θηρίου καὶ ποιήσῃ [ἵνα] ὅσοι ἐὰν μὴ προσκυνήσωσιν τῇ εἰκόνι τοῦ θηρίου ἀποκτανθῶσιν.
ἐπιγραφή also on the cross, Mark 15:26
καὶ ἦν ἡ ἐπιγραφὴ τῆς αἰτίας αὐτοῦ ἐπιγεγραμμένη, Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων
i.e. the veneration of the cross is idol-worship!
https://catholicphilly.com/2016/03/cath ... pope-says/
. “If we want to know the love of God, let us look to the crucifix.”