God could have chosen any method to save us, but he used the cross. The cross is our spiritual centerpiece, the sign of our soul’s emancipation.
However, the pre-Christian cross might offer a sliver of insight to God. Some skeptics claim this ancient sign of the cross disproves Christianity. Because this image recurred in early divergent cultures, they claim Christ's story wasn’t true; that the first Christians borrowed “the cross myth” and its sign from pre-existing religions. But couldn’t the God who oversees the universe and its events have etched the cross image into…
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