Does Your Church Hang Pictures Portraying Jesus

[Thekla]

Yet when you greet a brethren with a holy kiss, you are indeed, venerating an icon.

Love,
Christina

to add to Christina's >>

check out Genesis ... we are created in His image (ikon)

 

[ScottBot]

to add to Christina's >>

check out Genesis ... we are created in His image (ikon)

:sarcasm on: so, if the literal interpretation of the bible says we are NOT to create images, of which every person is an image of God, then by reductio ad absurdum, we are not allowed to make babies, because babies are by simple extrapolation, also images of God. However, God also commands us to go out a mulitply. So, therefore the bible is self-contradictory and it should be disregarded in its entirety. :end sarcasm:

 

[Komnenos]

:sarcasm on: so, if the literal interpretation of the bible says we are NOT to create images, of which every person is an image of God, then by reductio ad absurdum, we are not allowed to make babies, because babies are by simple extrapolation, also images of God. However, God also commands us to go out a mulitply. So, therefore the bible is self-contradictory and it should be disregarded in its entirety. :end sarcasm:

LOL good one!

 

[Asinner]

:sarcasm on: so, if the literal interpretation of the bible says we are NOT to create images, of which every person is an image of God, then by reductio ad absurdum, we are not allowed to make babies, because babies are by simple extrapolation, also images of God. However, God also commands us to go out a mulitply. So, therefore the bible is self-contradictory and it should be disregarded in its entirety. :end sarcasm:

A perfect example.

Love,
Christina

 

[Asinner]

Scott, I just noticed it was you. I was wondering what happened to you.

Love,
Christina

 

[ScottBot]

1000 blessings for the person who can state WHY God gave us this injunction against the making of images.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Originally Posted by A V O
:sarcasm on: so, if the literal interpretation of the bible says we are NOT to create images, of which every person is an image of God, then by reductio ad absurdum, we are not allowed to make babies, because babies are by simple extrapolation, also images of God. However, God also commands us to go out a mulitply. So, therefore the bible is self-contradictory and it should be disregarded in its entirety. :end sarcasm:

What can I say.............

Genesis 2:7 And YHWH 'Elohiym is forming the 'adam with soil/dust/ from the ground, and He is blowing in nostrils of him breath of living ones, and the 'adam is becoming to soul of living.

Reve 13:15 And it was given to it to give a spirit/breath to the image of the wild-beast, that even/and should be talking, the image of the wild-beast, and should be making that as many as if ever no should be worshipping to the image of the wild beast, they may be being killed

 

[simonthezealot]

The Image of Edessa was made when Jesus wiped his face on a cloth because a neighboring king wanted to see Jesus. the painter didn't do it so Jesus pressed his face to a cloth and it stayed on it. Saint Luke is credited with writing the first Icon of Mary from life.

Legends and more legends...

 

[simonthezealot]

Yet when you greet a brethren with a holy kiss, you are indeed, venerating an icon.

Love,
Christina

Okay Christina if you say so...

 

[simonthezealot]

Simon,
I do not understand how you still do not understand the use of Icons in Orthodoxy.

I do understand and fear for those involved in the use of them...

 

[simonthezealot]

We are all Icons of our lord as we are made in his image. As A Sinner has all ready explained.

Made by HIM not by man...

 

[simonthezealot]

These "icons" are more alive than those you greet here on earth. We are all One.

Love,
Christina

Please explain!

 

[ScottBot]

I do understand and fear for those involved in the use of them...

Interesting. Aren't printed words on a page a form of image? I mean, aren't the individual letters representative of something? Therefore, the bible is a collection of images (ikonia). Thanks for pointing out the fruitless, vain, and immoral use of images. I'll get to burning all of my books, including the bible, ASAP. That means that I will HAVE to rely on Tradition for my spiritual nourishment.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

Simon, do you see it like: we're venerating things made by men, not by God? Is that the problem?

Well...you see, when we venerate icons we are not thinking of the wood or oil..or that material from which statues are made...we are thinking of the people represented by them. When we kiss an icon of Christ, it's like we're kissing Him. Not because it's an incarnation of Him or something, lol, but simply because..as St. Basil said: our devotion passes to the object, through the symbol... icons are like windows into heaven

 

[simonthezealot]

In your posts you've shown us that you require scriptural backing for everything you do

Backing everything I do in Christ, YOU BET my posts show this, that's a compliment!
afterall one is called to love the Lord our God with all our heart mind and soul.
But nothing I ever mentioned would indicate that I was not given a functional mind, plus to attach body functions to this to top it off is distasteful and offensive.

 

[simonthezealot]

to add to Christina's >>

check out Genesis ... we are created in His image (ikon)

Who created us?
We are not man made...

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Originally Posted by Nickolai
In your posts you've shown us that you require scriptural backing for everything you do

I know this wasn't directed at me, but what the heck is wrong with requiring Scriptural backing?

 

[Nickolai]

Backing everything I do in Christ, YOU BET my posts show this, that's a compliment!
afterall one is called to love the Lord our God with all our heart mind and soul.
But nothing I ever mentioned would indicate that I was not given a functional mind, plus to attach body functions to this to top it off is distasteful and offensive.

what would you do if there was no Bible then? What did the Church do for 300 somthing years before there was a Biblical canon?

 

[MoNiCa4316]

Simon, what if there's something the Bible just doesn't mention? How do you decide what to do about it? Just curious.

peace

monica

 

[MoNiCa4316]

I know this wasn't directed at me, but what the heck is wrong with requiring Scriptural backing?

Nothing, if there is any