tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post1615702002800199626..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Images and Pictures of Jesus Christ Forbidden by ScriptureKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-32390595944467163002023-07-26T08:53:28.088-07:002023-07-26T08:53:28.088-07:00The link above to:
http://sites.google.com/site/f...The link above to:<br /><br />http://sites.google.com/site/faithalonesaves/salvation<br /><br />is now:<br /><br />https://faithsaves.net/salvation/<br /><br />Thanks.KJB1611https://www.blogger.com/profile/09696273086955004524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-17516107240720788922019-01-10T05:50:24.921-08:002019-01-10T05:50:24.921-08:00Dear Mr. Leach,
If you think the 2nd commandment ...Dear Mr. Leach,<br /><br />If you think the 2nd commandment forbids using maps, pictures of Jerusalem, etc. when teaching the Bible, don’t violate your conscience. However, that simply is not what is being forbidden. Thanks.KJB1611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-33587437874658150552019-01-09T21:03:58.502-08:002019-01-09T21:03:58.502-08:00How did you miss the point. No one is to use image...How did you miss the point. No one is to use images of any kind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01713137821327412324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-35862152296027527472015-08-13T18:20:19.574-07:002015-08-13T18:20:19.574-07:00By the way, I thought this was interesting concern...By the way, I thought this was interesting concerning pictures of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:<br /><br /><br />"From a comparison with Hellenistic representations of ancient Greek poets and philsophers, it appears that Christian artists, who had no knowledge of the likenesses of the Evangelists, adopted and adapted familiar portraints of pagan authors in contemporary art. According to the investigations of A. M. Friend, Jr., all the early Chrsitian portraits of the Evangelists go back to two main sets of four portraits each: one set was of the four philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, and Epicurus and the other set was of the four playwrights Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophenes, and Menander" (pgs. 43-44, The Text of the New Testament, Bruce Metzger & Bart Ehrman, 4th ed.)<br /><br />Also, the evangelistic site mentioned is now at faithsaves.net, which is vastly improved over:<br /><br />http://sites.google.com/site/faithalonesaves/salvationKJB1611https://www.blogger.com/profile/09696273086955004524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-69771878627828037892012-12-30T16:33:20.509-08:002012-12-30T16:33:20.509-08:00Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your honest confess...Dear Anonymous,<br /><br />Thank you for your honest confession. While I know practically nothing about you and this may already be taken care of in your life, I would encourage you to check out the resources that show you that you can be 100% for sure that you have eternal life at: http://sites.google.com/site/faithalonesaves/salvation<br /><br />Thanks for commenting.Thomas Rosshttp://sites.google.com/site/faithalonesaves/salvationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-91248328569170752042012-12-30T02:44:19.809-08:002012-12-30T02:44:19.809-08:00I am shocked by this discovery. Images of Jesus a...I am shocked by this discovery. Images of Jesus are not allowed. I have adored Jesus' picture for years. I do have them in my home. Now, I am learning, it is forbidden in the Bible to have them. I was just at my stepdadms church and not only were their pictures of Jesus but also of his mother Mary and a wooden statue of the cruxified Jesus. I have a mini Nativity scene with a baby Jesus and Joseph and Mary in it. I am sad to learn that those things I had such high regard for, are not to be kept in my home or condoned at all in my life. All my life, I have revered them and now, I have to turn my back on what I thought was right. For God, I will do this and pray that HE forgive me and help me to leave those former beliefs in my past. I feel so shaken by this revelation, because everything I must get rid of, gave me such joy in the past. Does anyone understand how I feel? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-45267032845739819402012-07-28T12:56:58.061-07:002012-07-28T12:56:58.061-07:00Thanks for this post!Thanks for this post!Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07399102046474846550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-54010580139121700852012-07-12T12:37:15.173-07:002012-07-12T12:37:15.173-07:00Dear D4,
I think the regulative principle would a...Dear D4,<br /><br />I think the regulative principle would apply in anything that is worship, and an image of Christ, if it is not designed to excite reverence for and love for Christ, is (at best) useless and a misrepresentation of Christ, while if it is designed to excite such love and reverence, it is sinful. If one covers up/blots out/erases an image from a curriculum, it is not really in the curriculum anymore, and the kids don't see any image of Christ. At my mother's house, when we dug up the garden, we found an idol of a Roman Catholic "saint" buried in the ground to help the grass grow. We threw the idol away, and the garden was just fine. We were not promoting idolatry by having a garden that used to have an idol in it. If one gets rid of images from an otherwise good curriculum, I don't think it is sinful to use such a curriculum, although those who publish it and produce the images have a different matter on their hands.Thomas Rosshttp://sites.google.com/site/thross7noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-4753823160082832892012-07-12T06:43:09.149-07:002012-07-12T06:43:09.149-07:00Ah, I see the distinction you are making re: the i...Ah, I see the distinction you are making re: the inspiration of reverence notion and and unimaginable Divine essence.<br /><br />In your opinion, would the RPW apply for cirriculum imagages?d4v34xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346680257860879900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-68790623812899969132012-07-11T20:37:01.844-07:002012-07-11T20:37:01.844-07:00Dear D4,
I agree that it would be better to not ...Dear D4,<br /><br /> I agree that it would be better to not have the images in the curriculum at all, but if a church comes to a conviction against images of Christ and has a curriculum already that has such images, I think if they cover/black out/cover with paper, etc. the images of Christ, but keep using the rest of a storybook that has stories about Daniel and the lion’s den, the apostles, etc. I think that is not sinning.<br /> I think that the difference between making a picture of Christ versus, say, Jonah and the whale is very significant. First, Jonah does not have a Divine nature that cannot be pictured, nor is he one in essence with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Second, a picture of Jonah preaching in Nineveh is not designed to cause reverence. If a page with a picture of Jonah fell out of a storybook and someone accidentally stepped on the picture, it would not be a big deal—nobody would care, except for the fact that a page in the storybook was damaged. On the other hand, if someone accidentally stepped on a picture of Christ, it would cause those who were not opposed to such images to think that taking such a step was a dangerous sin. The image of Christ is supposed to engender love and other holy affections—which is idolatry when caused by the image, rather than by a true view of the Son of God by faith—while the image of Jonah is not. There are other differences. If one doesn’t want to use any pictures of any Bible character at all in any church setting, that is certainly just fine, but a picture of Enoch and of the Son of God are not the same.<br /> By the way, reverence can be stirred up by images of Christ—or images of pagan gods—for one can enflame himself with idols, Isaiah 57:5. The Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox individual who is filled up with all sorts of affections by worshipping in front of his image of Jesus Christ, or Mary, or in front of eucharistic bread, etc. is having a real religious experience, although not a Christian one, just as is the Hindu who is stirred into a frenzy in front of his image of the blue elephant god or a snake.Thomas Rossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-81460223253558044162012-07-09T05:06:50.403-07:002012-07-09T05:06:50.403-07:00Point well taken about images of God and, specific...Point well taken about images of God and, specifically, Jesus, in worship or otherwise, but does merely covering or omitting pictures of Jesus from Children's cirricula really comply with this principle if used in a Sunday School or Children's Church setting? Don't those images pose problems as well?d4v34xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346680257860879900noreply@blogger.com