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We don't worship the image. That is your perception only. The image of Christ, who was really on earth, as a real man with a real face, who suffered a real death for us, can lead us to better understand the reality of the glory of God. All those poor, dull, illiterate folks certainly understand the concept when they see a Crucifix.

Let's approach this another way. This is going to seem indelicate because I need to make a point. Suppose someone were to make a statue of Jesus (or what they thought Jesus looked like) doing something indelicate, like going to the bathroom. They put it up in their church because they were inspired by it to worship the "true" Jesus.

Would this be okay?

This is going to seem indelicate because I need to make a point. Suppose someone were to make a statue of Jesus (or what they thought Jesus looked like)

Doug, think of this.....There are no descriptions of what Jesus looked like other then he was probably an average looking Jew.

The pictures and statues we see that supposedly represent him and Mary are pictures from inside some man’s mind.

So the end results are pretty well depicted by what the artist envisioned them to be.

If he happened to have an evil influence helping him,then we are now seeing the results of it.

Think of how some are going to feel, when Christ returns, and we see he looks nothing like the statues and pictures, and we ask him who is this man that weve thought was you all these years, and he says,

Who was the son of the morning? how art thou cut down to the ground,
Who can be a wolf, and pass off as a sheep?
Who was full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Now who do you think this tall, thin, hansom, effeminate looking person with long blondish hair, unthreatening, charismatic looking young man with sad blue eyes really was?

Dare we ask who was the actual woman who’s likeness is said to be that of Mary?

Let's approach this another way. This is going to seem indelicate because I need to make a point. Suppose someone were to make a statue of Jesus (or what they thought Jesus looked like) doing something indelicate, like going to the bathroom. They put it up in their church because they were inspired by it to worship the "true" Jesus.

Gettin aweful close to my *widget* argument that sent everyone nutso. LOL