1. If Christ died through the shotgun or electric chair, will you also use the shotgun or electric chair in your pendants just like what you put on the pendant of the cross?
First, it is funny that this is the argument often used by those who criticize the sign of the cross.
The first shotgun was invented in 1878 while the electric chair was built in 1890 while the Book of Ezequiel was written between 593 and 565 B.C. wherein God mentioned the Hebrew word “tav” and the shape “x” o “+”. Thus, the absurdity of those who assail Catholics came out and Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:18 that this is absurd for people who do not believe.
Second, those who assail Catholics should understand that the mind of God is not like their minds that it is possible to use the shotgun or electric chair in the death of Jesus Christ. This is what God said, “My thinking cannot be reached by your thinking.”(Isaiah 55:9).
2. Is it true that people who are far away and cannot be heard by Pilate made the Sign of the Cross during that time they were being asked what they wanted to be done to Jesus?
Those who are against the sign of the cross refer to what is written in Matthew 27:22-24. However, if we read carefully the entire verse of Matthew Chapter 27, we cannot read anything like that.
Is it not a big sin against God to accuse someone of lying especially if it is the Bible that you accuse of something that is written that way?
It is clear that it is written in the Bible that whoever makes an addition is not for Christ.
“Anyone who does not stay with the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God.”(2 John 1:9)
3. The Sign of the Cross is a mark of the Beast
Why do many anti-Catholics who hate Catholics single out the Sign of the Cross?
During the time of Saint Paul, he already mentioned in his letters to different people that many people live like that. It is true that that the cross is an honor for Apostle Paul but a shame for some people.
“Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example.For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ.”(Philippians 3:17-18)