It's a sign of your devotion to your religion. (Just like the Star of David is to the devil worshipers. Or, say, the black box in the desert is to the islamists that pray to their pedo warlord.)

One doesn't pray to the cross, one prays to God.

I'd consider an idol to be a physical object that represents an artist's physical representation of what they think their God looks like. Take, for instance, the totally made up religion of the church of the flying spaghetti monster, I don't believe any of them are praying to a colander. (Probably made up by a kike, I'm not interested in knowing.) A step further, I think that is just a troll religion for atheists to have a go at snubbing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Do they need roped? No. They need saved. (At least, those that aren't White.)

in my opinion, modern christianity and its symbols are nothing what the original jesus intended. it has been perverted by every jew and retard on this planet. bill hicks had a good analogy. it would be like making a big wooden rifle when paying homage to JFK. of course, i also think that it is stupid to pay these mega churches billions, when we have starving people.

Do you worship and pray to the letter t? What about x? No, you aren't worshiping or praying to the cross. The cross represents your faith in Jesus Christ dying for you, for me, for all of us and our sins. It represents something, a moment in time, an event. The thing that is the cross is immaterial to your worship.

There are differences between idols, and symbols. The cross is an outward expression of an inward commitment to our Lord. You see symbols used heavily in Catholic practice. Where it becomes an issue is when you start to worship the item itself as if it's holy. Like the people who worship the "crying" Mary statue, or the people who make it a point to buy a specific flask of holy water because someone blessed it.

In my humble opinion, it is not an idol because you don't worship or pray to it. If you bowed before it, that would be completely different.

The amount of cope and spin here is fascinating...

In my opinion, it is idolatry.

I don’t wear a crucifix anymore. I feel it is an idol and a distraction from focussing on Jesus the Messiah.

Do you bow yourself down to it in acts of worship? If not then I don’t know if I would consider it an idol. Nevertheless, if it is nagging at your conscience then that is between you and God, and you must do what your conscience is telling you.

1Corinthians chapter 10 sort of addresses this, although he is speaking of food offered to idols. Basically if it troubles your conscience, then don’t do it. If it causes another brother or sister to stumble, then refrain from doing it for their sake. But whatever you do, do it for the glory of God.

So, if you believe making a cross is honoring God, then that is a good thing and you should keep it. If you believe it to be an idol and an object of worship and it troubles your conscience, then perhaps you should destroy it.

It seems to me that the cross would just be a reminder of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Through out the day, we all are faced with choices... good or evil. Those choices set us on a path. It's nice to be reminded which path to take.

I know I already posted on this matter, but let me give you an example of what I believe is an idol.

So I woke up one morning, reaching for my phone to silence my alarm. I admit that I spend a lot of time on my phone, however much of that time is work-related. But there’s plenty of screen time that isn’t work-related. And in the mornings after I silence my alarm, my usually routine before I even crawl out of bed is to check bank balances, check poal, check for messages from customers, etc.

Well this particular morning a thought jumped into my head: this phone is your god. If that’s what you reach for first thing in the morning, and you spend more time on your phone (not work-related) than you do in the Word or in prayer, then that phone is your god. It is an idol.

So that particular morning I silenced the alarm, broke my routine, and left my phone bedside. I was not even going to bring it downstairs with me. It was a Saturday so I didn’t need it right away for work, and instead I devoted that entire morning to God and reading my Bible, prayer, etc. Words were jumping off the page of that Bible at me like I had never experienced before. I felt that God was pouring out his spirit to me and making his word known to me (proverbs 1:23). It was the most productive day that I had in a very long time.

I think there are two different questions here -- the explicit one and the implied one. The explicit one is, does the act of a Christian wearing a cross count as idolatry? I think no. I say this as a Reform Presbyterian, where I DO consider pictures of Jesus (and a crucifix that has an image of Jesus hanging on it) to be idolatry.

The implied question is whether the feelings that you are having is you being convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit. I would say to examine yourself to answer that question. Are you doing this as an act of devotion, or are you doing it for other reasons? Are you doing it as an act of worship of the cross itself, or of the main who hung on it? Are you doing it for some other sinful reason, like as some sort of "own" of the heathens?

I think that if you are feeling like this, it's an opportunity for self-examination. Test the spirits influencing you like in 1 John 4.