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To: imardmd1

True, but have you seen the film?


11 posted on 10/31/2013 11:16:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
True, but have you seen the film?

The answer is "No," but I'll qualify that: I have deliberately stayed away from visual art devices that purport to picture the person of Jesus, and which supposedly illustrate how He acted. My basis is application of Exodus 20:4-6 clarified by Hebrews 1:3-4.

My view is that no sinful human can adequately represent Him without marring my perception of what He might have looked like and how He might have acted, by supplanting what my imagination makes of the Scriptures I read and ponder on. That's not a particular criticism, just an observation and a preference.

However, in that vein I do not permit even, say, a print of Sallman's "Head of Christ, or Ciseri's appealing "Ecce Homo" in my home. I do not want to make someone else's vision of Him mine, except that recorded in the Bible.

13 posted on 10/31/2013 12:00:35 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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