Al-Watsiniya fi al-katsulikiyah (al-bahts fi romziyu al-sholib)

The cross is a symbol that is well known among the public as a symbol of Christianity. Every sect in Christianity has a distinctive cross that distinguishes one from another. The Catholic and Protestant crosses are distinguished by the presence of a corpus or statue of Jesus hanging on it. Catholics use a corpus on their crosses, whereas Protestants are just plain crosses without any statues. Researchers will trace deeper into the history of the cross in pre-Christian times who rejected the presence of the symbol of the cross because this symbol was only attached to people who had committed grave sins. So that the researcher will use a historical methodology with an approach to the manuscript literature related to the cross. The results found by researchers that the meaning of the cross for Catholics today is taken from the meaning of the Pagan people because most Catholic teachings have been influence and interfered with by the teachings of Paganism. The meaning of the cross as a symbol of the resurrection and atonement for sins by Jesus is like the god Bacchus in Pagan. In addition, the use of the cross in Catholic religious rituals is not much different from the worship of Pagan gods who also use the cross. In fact, the cross is a symbol of the god Mithra or the sun god who was later transformed into a symbol of God’s love through the death and resurrection of Jesus.