Is it wrong to wear a crucifix

Isn't it weird that the people that say crucifixes are bad and that you can’t have them in your home or in the church because they are graven images. But as soon as the Christmas season hits these same people love displaying the statues of the manger scene (graven images) both in their homes and churches. Plus why would you depict the manger scene, he isn't a baby anymore and he isn't in a manger.

 

OUCH!... That hurt!... A thought just occurred to me, how many have crosses on their Bibles?... Just asking... Brother Glen

 

Yes. That is weird. Of course, there are those of us who do not even allow images of Jesus in our home at Christmas.

 

Yet this was posted for Christmas 2018 by the Twitter of ARBCA Missions (Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America):

 

Well this Reformed Church not only had one but 600 different nativity sets. And well over half belong to members of the congregation. So that means they have a graven image at home and church.

 

I don't celebrate Christ-Mass.

 

Do you know anything about the Christian Reformed Church? The Dutch CRC denomination has had a noticeable slide into liberalism. They have more problems than just 2nd Commandment violations. Do you have any more mud you care to sling, as it seems that is the only reason you are here?

 

No.

Should I?
I'm not aware of any mandate by the Lord to observe anything except water baptism and the Lord's Supper as events.

 

Well yes perhaps you should because according to Rome theology the mass is a sacrifice.

With this qualification - it happened ONCE 2000 or so years ago at Calvary by the Lord Jesus Christ never to be repeated.

 

I'll pass, Hank.
I see no reason to celebrate something that the unsaved spend boatloads of money giving each other gifts for, and that cannot be proven to coincide with Christ's birth.
It can be proven to coincide with the ancient Roman Feast of Saturnalia and the Germanic festival of Yule, though.

I don't celebrate His sacrifice...I remember His broken body and shed blood.

 

Uhm, I didn't use the word "celebrate" or mention any of those false gods you seem to know so much about.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

 

If you think about this claim, it’s saying do not use any kind of art. (Forms of art - paintings, sculptures, movies and music.) So you can’t watch movies or cartoons with Jesus portrayed in it. Music is off limits because while a song is playing you might want to kneel while singing or put your hands in the air. Some might say that you are worshipping the music. You already know that sculptures and painting are bad because Catholics have them.

 

Just another point to add from my last post, I read a while back that early Calvinists smashed crucifixes, statues of Jesus, stained glass, and organs.

 

The 120 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria over the past three weeks are proof of this.

 

William Whittingham, one of the translators of the Genva Bible, when he returned to England had gravestones defaced and used them for base purposes:

The County of Durham: Its Castles, Churches and Manorhouses

What a thrifty Huguenot, she, recycling others' too fancy gravestones as her home's thresholds, to be trodden underfoot!

 

And if that weren't disgusting enough, they'd smear excrement on them, etc.:

In Britain:

"St. Mary's church at Oxford had a baroque portal with a Virgen whose head was shot off. All the medieval figures in Ely Cathedral were beheaded. At Cheapside the most beautiful cross in London was pulled down. At Lichfield Cathedral they poured tar over the altar. Dugdale says soldiers polluted the choir with excrement."

In France:

"Iconoclasm was also a fundamental feature of the French Calvinist Reformation....Crucifixes were daubed with excrement and shrines desecrated."

In the Netherlands:

"they urinated on the chalices...defecated in the vestments. That which had been most holy was converted for the most base purposes: wooden images provided firewood, an altar became a pig's trough"

 

What better way to get people to start thinking about the Lord than to take over their holidays/festivals? Ingenious!