B.C. (before Christ)

i read once that truth is truth and it comes from God, and where it is found is not always under the "Christian" label. think about some of the things that are hateful and so far from God's loving character that have been done under that Christian label. something being labeled christian doesn't always make it true. and just to clarify, i am not refering in any way to scripture. i believe that that is where we find the root of truth that everything else flows from, but i've learned not to limit God to that alone. He can be seen in everything :) THAT being said i have been reading a book called 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown. not exactly a book that i expected to find anything useful spiritually from but like i said God can not be kept in a box. at one point in the book they come across a clue of some sort that is a cross but it doesn't make sense to them why the cross is presented here because it is pretty exclusive to Christianity and the backbone of this book is all about the Masons. so they were trying to figure out the purpose of the cross and they recalled back on what the cross meant before Christ came and before the cross became a symbol of Christianity. long before the cross was a christian symbol it was used by the Egyptians to represent the intersection of 2 demensions - the human and the celestial. it was a visual representation of the juncture where man and God become One! i read that and was blown away because ive wondered why the cross was chosen to be the instrument that Christ was killed by but it makes perfect sense as to why it was chosen! Because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross that allowed God to be able to connect with His people on a deeper level. in scripture there is an intimacy that is described in several different contexts - that between a husband and wife, God and his people, and the Trinity. this intimacy is described as becoming One, because you are so in tune with the other and the deepest parts of their heart and their being. The only way God could connect with his people was if Christ shed blood and paid the price of our sins. Christs' blood covers all the crap we do and allows the Father to draw near. He no longer sees the sin that separates, but he see's the beauty of His Son radiating from us. anyway, just a little nugget that i loved.