If you truly want to know what Jesus looks like, look at your church...
For it is the Body of Christ..
We are the body of Christ..
Our eyes should show compassion
Our hands should show healing, and should be reaching out to those in the ditch
Our feet should be walking to spread the gospel
Our mouth should be saying the things Jesus said
Our ears should be listening to the Holy Spirit
Our faces should glow with God's glory...
We should smile more, laugh more, enjoy being around holy people.
These are just off the top of my head, maybe others could add some features of Christ they see in their local Body of Christ.
I just know in my heart what he looks like and that's all that matters!
As long as I don't pray to the picture, he can look like whatever I want him to look like, right?
On a slightly different note, I've heard that Mary was somewhere between fourteen and sixteen when she gave birth, and Joseph was probably in his early thirties?
Is that accurate? Wow!
And I'm messin with you.
That's what that wink means.
But I am trying to make a point about the "graven images" issue.
I think hanging a "picture" of Jesus in the house is a violation of sacred law because it reduces the Holy down to the common or profane.
I don't have to pray to it to offend God.
I'm not looking to condemn anyone, I just don't understand how people can be so casual about it.
I'm trying to use reduction to absurdity to prove a point.
Some where along the way, it must matter how we represent God in images.
Take for example the radical feminists that have portrayed Christ as a woman.
How are they any more wrong than me if I represent him as a Europian or an African?
How about if I represent him as an animal to support my radical worship of nature?
Where is the line?
I say that the line has been drawn by God, and we should not represent Christ in any image whatsoever, including as a baby in a manger.
There, I said it, and I ain't taking it back!:tonofbricks:
Ok.
Sometimes I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
:laugh:
I understand what you're saying and I think I have had similar thoughts all along and didn't realize it until I started participating in this discussion (and Dale's in the other thread).
I am uncomfortable with images of Christ.
I don't have any in my house for that reason.
Hmmm.