By Benjamin Raven Pressley

What is so important about the cross? Is it just a symbol of Christianity? Is it just a decorative ornament to hang around our neck? I think most people in this day and time cannot even relate to the significance of the cross. To most it is some vague reference to a time gone by in Roman history. Most know the story on some level of how Jesus Christ was crucified on a Roman cross. I think that probably most Christians don’t even know the deep down meaning themselves. But it is so much more significant than that…

The cross was an instrument of torture used in some form or another by different civilizations to punish and kill their enemies but without a doubt the Roman empire perfected it. Herodotus, the Greek historian tells us that the Persians used crucifixion as a form of extreme punishment. Other sources reveal the practice among the Assyrians, the Scythians, (more…)