1991 Oil by John Sandora. The painting fixes on a point. (belief in christ). If you believe in god, then you must believe that christ died on the cross for our sins. Only through Jesus is a person saved. Thus the passage: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the father but by me". You cannot believe in god without Jesus and the Cross. That's why the cross is placed so far up in the foreground and God in the background. The 2 additional crosses (by shadow) complete the triangular pattern representing the trinity. They also represent the two other men that died beside Jesus that day. This is the meaning of the painting.
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