Did Jesus have long or short hair??

[LouisBooth]

Well some people are weary of using the worlds symbols and words for fear of diluting the message..something we are warned not to do by Christ's salt of the earth analogy

 

[LouisBooth]

If memory serves this is a major reason the monistic orders were created...although I could be remembering it wrong.

 

[GreenEyedLady]

I have done alot of studying on tha pagan things that we(christians) have adopted. Although they are dirived from the pagans, I am still unsure if I agree or disagree with it. This is why i said "im not sure if I agree with the whole halo thing"
I am not saying i agree or disagree..Just saying I am unsure on how God wants me to accept it.
GEL

 

[ZooMom]

How is picturing God's Grace as a circle of light diluting the message? How is portraying an attitude of holiness disagreeable? We're talking about the artistic representation of what we are all striving to be. Holy! Again, what is not to accept?

 

[LouisBooth]

"How is picturing God's Grace as a circle of light diluting the message? "

Same logic behind people not wanting to celebrate Halloween or fall festivals.

 

[ZooMom]

I'm not following you.

 

[Annabel Lee]

I'm also confused.

 

[GreenEyedLady]

I don't know what to tell you.
I am unsure about my feelings about haloes...its between God and I ...this is why I am unsure about it.]
I don't know what else to say to make you understand.
GEL
PS...Do you own study on pagan symbols...study it for a week then tell me what you think.

 

[ZooMom]

I don't need to study pagan symbols. I don't care about pagan symbols. My faith has nothing to do with pagan symbols. My faith contains Christian symbols. If pagans used similar symbols, so what? Christian symbols do not represent pagan belief. They represent Christian belief. And if some were developed or 'borrowed' from other beliefs, it doesn't matter now, because they have been made new in Christ. Our faith has conquered them and made them to glorify the One True God. Just as we have been baptized and remade to glorify God.

I'm sorry I don't understand your reservations. Just chalk it up to my 'ignorance'.

 

[GreenEyedLady]

Hey thats OK
If you don't want to study it fine. I felt compelled to study it because God gave me that conviction.
If God doesn't give you that conviction thats fine.
We all have our own convictions..
HUGS
GEL

 

[ZooMom]

Hmmmm...

 

[AngelAmidala]

I think we really need to be careful of what we're calling pagan and what we're not.

A few hundred years ago (or so) in Europe people went crazy about all sorts of pictures and stained glass windows depicting Jesus, his disciples, various Bible stories, etc. Why? They felt those things were graven images and should not be allowed. So...they destroyed them. My Chaucer professor last semester showed us some pictures from one of the shrines that pilgrims went to...similar to Chaucer's pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales...and there were these wood walls that had Jesus and his disciples on them. The paint was faded...but it was very obvious that the faces on them were scratched off. It just saddens me to think that some beautiful things were destroyed because people were overzealous.

Just wanted to share...

 

[LouisBooth]

"I'm not following you."

WEll some people are not comfortable with things being in the world first then using them in the church.

 

[ZooMom]

Originally posted by LouisBooth
"I'm not following you."

WEll some people are not comfortable with things being in the world first then using them in the church.

You mean like the Cross, or baptism? Neither of those have a Christian origin. Is it that Christ can make some things ok and not others?

 

[GreenEyedLady]

Louis means and I mean any objects that fallible humans create...baptism has nothing to do with this since it is NOT an image or idol.
GEL

 

[LouisBooth]

"You mean like the Cross, or baptism? Neither of those have a Christian origin. Is it that Christ can make some things ok and not others?"

But these are inherent in christianity. The things we have been discussing are not.

 

[MissytheButterfly]

Originally posted by ZooMom
You mean like the Cross, or baptism? Neither of those have a Christian origin. Is it that Christ can make some things ok and not others?

Really ? but the bible say Jesus was baptisied and that he died on the cross..I thought that made them Christian..

Zoomom, care you elaborate ?