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The Cross of Christ: Reflections on the Meaning of Christ's Suffering
Hieromonk Jonah (Pamphlet) Conciliar Press 1990
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The top beam, also seen on the Patriarchal cross, represents the plaque bearing Pontius Pilate's inscription "Jesus the Nazorean, King of the Jews"
A popular theory from the eleventh century, is that the slanted lower beam represents a foot-rest. The slant symbolizes a balance scale showing the good thief, St. Dismas, having accepted Christ would ascend to heaven, while the thief who mocked Jesus would descend to hell.
Another theory: The slant is invariably shown high on the left and low on the right and when interpreted as the Slavic Cross, the lower beam is understood to be one arm of a superimposed St. Andrew's Cross. The Apostle St. Andrew was the first Christian missionary to Russia. The story goes that when Andrew preached in southern Russia, he used a large three-bar cross as a visual teaching aid. All three bars were parallel, and when relating the Passion he tilted the lower footrest to signify that those on the right side of Christ will rise up into heaven and those on the left will slide down into hell.
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The Orthodox cross, made up of two horizontal and one diagonal bar crossing a vertical pole, is the symbol of the Russian Orthodox Church. The upper bar represents the sign "INRI," ("Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews") the mocking title bestowed on Christ by the Romans in the New testament account of the crucifixion.
The lower, slanted bar is simply a stylized footrest, a common design in early Christian crosses. Later folklore holds that the lower end points to hell, and the upper to heaven, representing the destinies of the two thieves crucified with Christ. The first thief, repentant, went to heaven, the second, who did not regret his sin, to hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cross_ of_the_Russian_Orthodox_Church_01.svg
I'm no Pastafarian but it looks suspiciously like that cross was designed specifically to crucify a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
That Eastern lot are stranger then the Western ones. It wouldn't surprise me in the least, but if they think the FSM will give up meekly like someone else they are seriously mistaken.
On the top bar there was written Pilate's sentence.
The bottom (diagonal) bar is Christ's legs bracket. It goes up to the right because on the right from Christ was crucifed the criminal who repented and went to Heaven (up) on the left side - the one who did not.
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The C's in the Serbian Orthodox Cross could have two meanings:
1."Само Слога Србина Спасава" (or "Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava"), which means "Only Unity Saves the Serbs".
2."Свети Сава - Српска Слава" (or "Sveti Sava - Srpska Slava"), which means "Saint Sava - Serbian Patron".
Kyrie, Eleison!: Reprint: Why Did Jesus Die (Parts 16-17)
Yet this was a very peculiar, mysterious body! It could enter and exit a locked room at will. It could change appearances, so as to be not immediately recognizable by His closest followers. And as His disciples later found out, this new, deified body was limitless, infinite. It had become a body capable of belonging to countless souls. So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the...
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I keep trying to back away from words such as require and necessary in favor of inevitable. To be a requirement one would have to argue that the precondition of fulfillment through incarnation was crucifixion and resurrection. I know it sounds like splitting hairs, but it seems to me that legal execution by some means was inevitable but not a requirement. At the same time, resurrection is not inevitable, but it is a requirement in order for the work of incarnation to be completed. I guess the difference between requirement and inevitability has to do with freedom. Something that is required does not permit freedom to operate. Something that is inevitable recognizes that under given conditions, human freedom will inevitably take certain turns. ...
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