WHOA!!!Leave.
Hagios, I just noticed this thread after replying to the other about Yoga. Hagios are you trying to pull one over on us? What is your church's web site? You are telling us they have big pictures of the "mother Mary", they do Yoga, they are into the emergent movement and they do contemplative prayer. You also never give more specific information when asked. So what is the deal?
No, we're not allowed to have any pictures of Biblical figures because none exist. Was someone at the crossing of the Red Sea with a camera? Did one of the disciples snap a picture of the Last Supper? And that picture of Mary--it's not Mary. These objects are nothing more than an artist's rendering of these particular people/events. Made by man, not by God. If it were important for us to have actual pictures, God would provide them to us. But He didn't. Because it's not necessary.Um, so we're not allowed to have any pics of Biblical figures? The little kids are going to hell because they've got a picture of Moses and the Israelites crossing the red sea in thier Sunday school room?
No, we're not allowed to have any pictures of Biblical figures because none exist. Was someone at the crossing of the Red Sea with a camera? Did one of the disciples snap a picture of the Last Supper? And that picture of Mary--it's not Mary. These objects are nothing more than an artist's rendering of these particular people/events. Made by man, not by God. If it were important for us to have actual pictures, God would provide them to us. But He didn't. Because it's not necessary.
Yes, but those artists' renderings give us ideas of what they looked like.No, we're not allowed to have any pictures of Biblical figures because none exist. Was someone at the crossing of the Red Sea with a camera? Did one of the disciples snap a picture of the Last Supper? And that picture of Mary--it's not Mary. These objects are nothing more than an artist's rendering of these particular people/events. Made by man, not by God. If it were important for us to have actual pictures, God would provide them to us. But He didn't. Because it's not necessary.
That's why I think it's hysterical when I see someone on ebay hawking a moldy piece of toast with "Mary's" picture on it. It's not even her. We don't know what she looked like. And there's a reason for that.