In this 2007 file photo, Bert Baker, an amateur artist, had recently finished a 7-foot-tall sculpture of Christ at Red Bank Baptist Church. Credit: Gerry Melendez/The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC
Posted on 05/30/2018 4:56:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
In this 2007 file photo, Bert Baker, an amateur artist, had recently finished a 7-foot-tall sculpture of Christ at Red Bank Baptist Church. Credit: Gerry Melendez/The State Newspaper, Columbia, SC
Charleston, S.C., May 30, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Jesus is being evicted from a South Carolina church, and he must be out by the end of the month.
Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington, about 120 miles northeast of Charleston, has voted to remove a statue of Christ and its accompanying reliefs after 11 years, because they are believed to be too “Catholic in nature”.
The white, hand-carved statue in question shows Christ with his outstretched and stepping out of the wall, while the reliefs depict images from Christ's life, death and resurrection.
Red Bank Baptist Church leaders sent a letter to the artist, Bert Baker Jr., earlier this month, informing him that the congregation had voted to remove the statue because it was being perceived as a Catholic icon and was causing confusion among churchgoers.
“We understand that this is not a Catholic icon, however, people perceive it in these terms. As a result, it is bringing into question the theology and core values of Red Bank Baptist Church," church leaders Jeff Wright and Mike Dennis said in the letter.
Baker, a former member of the church’s congregation himself, was commissioned to make the statue for Red Bank in 2007.
In a response letter, Baker told the church leaders that he wanted the Christ statue to appear to be stepping out in a symbol of the Lord’s commission, and that the other images in the reliefs were based on basic facts about Christ's life which can be found in the Bible.
“Under each arm the reliefs depict scriptural and historical events that we as Christians........
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I think you earned it. If someone doesn’t want a statue in their church, so what? And is it really a shock that Baptists prefer a different look than Catholics?
When I visited San Xavier del Bac ( http://www.sanxaviermission.org/Photo-Gallery.html ) outside of Tucson, or Notre Dame in Paris ( http://www.aviewoncities.com/gallery/paris/notredame.htm ), I didn’t hyperventilate and ask why their churches don’t look Baptist enough...
The whole thread is a fight that never needed to happen.
“Projection is a defense mechanism used to displace responsibility of one’s negative behavior and traits by attributing them to someone else,”
It does have it's power...
We ALL nailed Him to the cross.
Love: in action.
It helps that demons hate crucifixes.
That, and a certain "faith community" with roots in the Middle East that begins with the letter "I".
And I don't mean Independent Baptists.
Thanks, that’s funny! I’ve lived that, but had not heard it before.
Whether it’s about politics or religion or which way the toilet paper comes off the roll, there is lots of commonality in the ways Satan gets us to argue.
Yeah, it's...
it's...
it's not too good. But bless his heart. The artist's heart is in the right place, even if his hands were all in the wrong places to execute the piece.
No judgement. An object is just an object, but meaning is viewer dependent.
One person sees a pistol on the coffee table and barely notices it.
Another person sees that same pistol and won’t even come into the room, they are so scared.
I probably shouldn’t admit how clueless I am about things, but, for example, I had never given much thought to the Cross with or without Jesus. To me, the Cross is the Cross.
But now I realize that people choosing one or the other might say quite a bit about their beliefs denominationally, or it might be an indication of where they feel they are in their faith in relation to Jesus, or it might have no specific meaning, as both Crosses might be equally the same to them.
I just don’t know... and these days that’s okay.
Yeah, never mind if it is Bibical or not, just get it out because it is too catholic.
Religion any one?
Stop practicing religion and start to worship the living risen Savior.
A Baptist Jesus would probably look like paige patterson
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