If Jesus was nail to the cross through his wrists, why do people with stigmata get bruise on their palms?
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Because they did it themselves...It's fake!  Why would Jesus leave bruises on your body and cause you pain?  He suffered for us so we wouldn't have to experience it.
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Unexplained bruising can be a sign of a medical condition.\nShe also may just not be telling you if someone is hurting her.\n\nMy daughter used to tell me she was bumping into things, when all the while her husband was beating her.  I'm happy to say that she is divorced from him, and he is in prison now.
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It was Jesus who said that His yoke was easy and His burden light. He is also the one who said to take up your cross and follow Him. I believe the latter refers to the shame of the cross and the suffering that comes from being identified with Christ. Condemned prisoners were required to carry their crosses to humiliate them, sort of like the perp walk. This was a symbol of their guilt. I think this may be why Jesus fell under the weight of the cross and someone else was ordered to carry it. It wasn't His cross that He died on, it was ours. If you are having problems with people abusing the GIFT of God to continue to live in rebellion against Him, then we are in agreement. These people's faith is shallow and insincere, thus it's false. They may have heard some sort of message and were asked if they believe it and they said yes. This doesn't mean that they came to a full realization or understanding within their hearts of who Jesus really is, why He had to die, and why they need Him. True converts are led to Him by the internal promptings of the Holy Spirit who convicts them of their sin and God's wrath against them. They are moved to repentance and driven to seek refuge in God's mercy and grace through faith in His son Jesus. It is our guilt-ridden consciences that keep us from God just like it did Adam and Eve. Simple and genuine faith in Jesus for our justification gives our conscience peace with God. This produces within us, by the Holy Spirit, great joy, a grateful and carefree heart, and love. If these things motivate you to righteous living then the yoke truly will be light. If fear and guilt, however, are your motivators then you will find yourself trying(and failing)to earn God's favor by cold hearted legalistic efforts to keep a set of rules.
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I disagree with tagi.  The Catholics bow down to a cement Christ on a cross.  if that isn't idolatry, I don't know what is.  If your friend was killed by a gun, would you wears one around your neck.  It is a good thing he wasn't trampled by an elephant.   We don't need physical symbols are signs to have us remember the sacrifice of Jesus.  if we do, then the level of our worship is on the surface and not the heart.  I have seen a lot of drug dealers and gang members wearing crosses.  What does that symbol remind them of?  The bible strictly forbids us to make any object in the likeness of Him or anything symbols at all.  the early Christians forbid their usage and the only reason they are used now is because of Constantine trying to unite he pagans and the Christians.  the cross was used by the pagans long before Christ.
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I am assuming you mean bruised.\nBut it in a splint to avoid further movement and injury.
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When you get hit your body takes a beating.  Everything in your body shifts forward then back from the impact.  The bruising is caused from the injury when something is hit to a certain force causing bleeding under your skin.
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Well, they both have some link to christianity. Stigmata is the belief of Jesus' reincarnated punishments onto others. This is strongly linked to the christian belief, and i am sure that many priests have eaten oranges including the pope.
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I can't explain what happened to your palm, but I can comment on the text in Job.\n \nThis passage is referring to God causing man to stop his labor long enough to behold God's work.\n\nLook again at the verses before  JOB 37:7.\n\nThey all refer to the work God does, to the power He has. To seal the hand of man means to prevent it from working. You almost have to understand Hebrew to grasp the real meaning here. I researched this for almost 30 minutes before I figured it out.\n\nNO, I don't read Hebrew but I did online research of it.\n\nYes, avoid fortune tellers and palm readers, and soothsayers and all those. Read what happened to King Saul when he decided to trust a witch 1Samuel 28: 5-25. She is called here "a woman with a familiar spirit"  which implies a medium or one who talks to spirits.  They are in truth people whom satan and his angels use to deceive people who are foolish enough to believe them.
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on this |\non a long pole. not a cross. \nand many problemas with the "cruxifiction" pictures today is that in the pictures Jesus had the nails through his hands, which would have ripped open due to the weight of his whole body on his hands. The nails are suppost to be in between\nthe hand and wrist, same story with his feet. Many people believe it was on a cross because that it was what they have been taught.
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obviously he is concerned about injuring you... that is because he doens't know what he is doing... he hasn't learned the wrist technique that allows for maximum pain and redness without any real lasting damage...
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It does not mean anything. In the past days they used to crusify the person who has done illegal activity, and  thought that jesus too against them , so they crusified jesus using CROSS.we believe jesus is a god , so CROSS which was used for crusify him became Holy thing.\n\n Now a days Cross mean to say dedication, forgiveness and so.......
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I'm going with "D."  The repetition of "O The Blood of Jesus" sounds a lot like perseveration to me.\n\nEither that, or some sort of exorcism.  Have you been spitting up pea soup?  Unusual range of motion in the neck?  Might need looking into.\n\n:)
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A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillaries are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding tissue. They often induce pain but are not normally dangerous. Sometimes, however, bruises can be serious, leading to hematoma, or can be associated with serious injuries, including fractures and internal bleeding. Minor bruises are easily recognized by their characteristic blue or purple color in the days following the injury.\n\nAlso, some people bruise more easily than others. A deficiency in Vitamin C can make a person more susceptible to bruises
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Yes, I've heard of situations like that...The bruises are from that dang knee cap sliding. It's moving around, causing bruises that start from the inside and work their way out. I don't think that normally bruises start from the inside out unless you have a problem like yours, though.
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the "Passion" was a kids version of what truly happened. it was so brutal that it could not be shown on TV or movies. it was so painful before they were put on the cross, it was a miracle that He did not die before the cross. first, he was spat upon and his beard was torn out by his own people. then he was whipped with a stick. he was taken before pilate. then he was sripped naked and whipped by the "cat and nine tails" which had peices of metal and glass that tears the skinn off. they whipped him thirty-nine times. then he was robed in purple and a crown of thorns was forced onto his head. the thorns were the length of common nails and as thin as a pine needle. they were so sharp that they went through his scull. then he was forced to carry his cross which would have weighd something near five hundred pounds. he had to carry it throu the streets ant to the mount called golgotha which was a good ten kilometers from the roman post in the city. once there, he had his clothes ripped off him once more and was forced to hold out his arms where nails the length of railroad spikes were driven into his hands and feet. then they raised the cross into the hole whre it dropped two to three feet. he was nude, bleeding, almost unrecognizable, and was mocked by both his people and the romans. what you did not see in the movie was that all the sin of the world was brought onto Jesus and he died from the weight of that sin.
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" The practice is rooted in pre-Christian Europe, when the cross was an important pagan symbol and a wish made on a cross was more likely to come true. We tend to believe that crossing one's fingers is rooted more in Christianity (the Christian cross is the source of several English words and practices, like criss-cross and marking one's signature in the form of an X) until we can find evidence to the contrary. The notion was, of course, that making a cross, the symbol of Christ's cross, would encourage God to grant one good luck."
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The best speculation I've heard is that the mark on your forehead is symbolic of your thoughts - do you worship & praise the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob with all your being? Or, do you follow the mainline denominations of pagan men's traditions of sun god worship  with Sunday services, Christmas, Easter, etc? One is a mark of being His child who loves God & loves His Law; the other mark is rebellious....\n\nThe best speculation I've heard for the mark on your hand is what do you do with your hands? Do you use them good or for ill? Do you use them to do menial labor or secular fun during the Appointed Times of the Lord? Or do you remember the Sabbath & keep it holy; observe all the Feasts of the Lord? Again, one set of answers will figuratively mark one as willing to worship the beast; the correct use demonstrates that one is an obedient child of God.