THE BIBLE/GOD'S VIEWPOINT/The Cross

Did Jesus' disciples use the cross to worship God or to symbolize Christianity/

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

Nowhere does the Bible suggest that the earliest Christians used the cross as a religious symbol. Instead, it was the Romans of that era who used the cross design to symbolize their gods. Then, about 300 years after Jesus' death, Roman Emperor Constantine adopted the cross as the emblem of his armies, and it thereafter became  associated with the "Christian" church.

Since pagans used the cross to worship their gods, would Jesus' disciples have used it in their worship of the true God?  On the contrary, they knew that God had long disapproved  of worship using "the form of any symbol" and that Christians were to "flee from idolatry."  (Deuteronomy 4:15-19; 1 Corinthians 10:14)  "God is a Spirit," unseen by human eyes. Therefore, the early Christians did not use visible objects and symbols to help them feel closer to Good. Rather, they worshipped him "with spirit," guided by his invisible holy spirit, and with "truth," in harmony with God's will as revealed in the Scriptures. -John 4:24. 

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