Surrender (religion)

In Christianity, the first main principle of surrender is "Dying to Self", or "The Carrying of Your Cross", allowing Christ to reign and rule in the order of how one's life is carried out, illustrated in the following passages: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] will come after me let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.Greater love hath no man than this,that a man lay down his life for his friends.And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.Another principle central to the Christian concept of surrender is the concept of surrender to God's Will.

The coming into the world as God incarnate and then the surrender to the Cross/His life in the act of sacrificial atonement, breaking the curse of sin and death from the Fall.

This is evidenced in the following:But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.Surrender is also noted in Christian doctrine[where?]

The Christian Flag, which represents all of Christendom, has a white field, with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton.

[2] According to the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna said the following to the warrior Arjuna, who became his disciple: I consider the yogi-devotee—who lovingly contemplates on Me with supreme faith, and whose mind is ever absorbed in Me—to be the best of all the yogis.After attaining Me, the great souls do not incur rebirth in this miserable transitory world, because they have attained the highest perfection.... those who, renouncing all actions in Me, and regarding Me as the Supreme, worship Me... For those whose thoughts have entered into Me, I am soon the deliverer from the ocean of death and transmigration, Arjuna.

"[4] Contrary to the notion of surrendering onto God, Krishna in Bhagavad Gita also advises his followers to question everything in pursuit of absolute truth.