“For by one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14, NKJV).

The idea that a man found guilty and executed on a cross should be worshiped as God was offensive to the ancient mind. Sparse reference to the cross in Roman literature shows their aversion to the idea. For the Jews, the law declared that a man impaled on a tree was cursed by God.