I’m writing a story about anthropomorphic animals in a world similar to earth. This story is just for my friends and family and any Christian furry who would be interested in reading it. I don’t plan on publishing it, but I still would like to be accurate with the details. My story takes place at the end of times, and I’m wondering how to deal with Jesus coming back. My characters are anthro animals, so it would look weird if Jesus wasn’t. However, I’ve seen pictures of furry Jesus and they look ridiculous. It doesn’t seem right to portray Jesus as an anthro animal. What is your opinion on furry Jesus?
I know this is an unusual question that might get a lot of hate, I’m just curious of what to do. Please give honest answers. I just don’t want to write anything that portrays Jesus in a way He shouldn’t be portrayed as.
Well, we know our Lord became incarnate as a human, and scripture describes the Incarnation in a manner that strongly suggests He posesses two natures, and only two natures, human and divine, in one hypostasis (the hypostatic union in turn facilitates the Christological principle of
Communicatio Idiomatum, which lets us attribute to one nature things ordinarily associated with the other, so we can say that the Virgin Mary gave birth to God the Son, that Jesus Christ participated in the creation of the universe (John 1:1-3), and also sent us the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, which caused Him to be conceived, and so on.
But I and many others believe Jesus Christ our Lord, God and Savior, being infinitely loving and in an eternal union of perfect love, both for God His Father, who begat Him before all worlds, and for God the Holy Spirit, who proceeds eternally from the Father and is a distinct Person, loves all of creation infinitely, and that anything conscious will be restored. Among Eastern Orthodox monks, there is a strong belief that all cats go to Heaven, and Orthodox monasteries have lots of cats. Mount Athos, the autonomous peninsula of 23 monasteries and countless smaller sketes and hermitages in Greece, has an enormous population of cats; I think they might number as many as 100,000.
Cats are also the only animals permitted in Orthodox churches, except in emergencies like a severe blizzard where farm animals critical to the community could die if not kept there. That second clause of the ancient canon has been rendered largely obsolete, because modern farms tend to be far enough from churches so there is always something available. But cats are still allowed, and many parishes have a cat, in order to ensure there are no mice or rats who could try to get at the Antidoron (blessed bread, separate from the communion) and any accidentally spilled crumbs of the Eucharist a priest did not notice after one liturgy (perhaps an older priest at night, with vision problems), and another priest or deacon might notice it later. Orthodox priests view it as intolerable negligence on their part if through improper precautions they allow for a rat or mouse or other vermin to consume any part of the Eucharist, or other blessed food, hence cats are of obvious utility.
But we have no replacement! 
