The Cross

So many people, Orthodox Christians included, now say: “It’s all one God and it doesn’t matter what religion you are.” First of all—of course, there IS only ONE God. (I believe that’s in something called the “Creed.”) Secondly—if it doesn’t matter what religion you are, then it must not matter that Christ came into the world and died on the Cross. Everything we believe as Orthodox Christians is based upon a man (who is one of the Trinity) being born of a Virgin, dying on a Cross, raised on the third day, and ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father. It DOES matter if you believe the Virgin birth is a myth. It DOES matter if you believe Christ was only a human being. People can believe what they want, but the bottom line is that we don’t always agree. “Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” “We preach Christ crucified” and for many this is foolishness. But for us, without the Cross there is no life.