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To: Aliska
saints are depicted as wearing white garments and wedding garments in the bible

Exactly! Because they're at the Lamb's Wedding Feast! And Ephesians 5 tells us in detail that the Lamb of God has the Church for his spouse.

I prefer my Jesus and saints clothed if it is all right with you.

Careful with the "my Jesus" talk. Jesus is the Truth; he's not something we construct to meet our expectations and be emotionally congenial. He's a sign of contradiction, as the Gospel says. If he's not rocking your world, you don't know him.

The nakedness of the cross was an anomaly, a gross humiliation of Jesus.

You realise of course that none of this could have happened unless Jesus had consented to every jot and tittle. That fact that the Son of David (like David before him) was naked was no accident. It was his choice, precisely because it was meant to convey a profound truth.

70 posted on 03/26/2004 11:00:21 PM PST by Romulus ("Behold, I make all things new")
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To: Romulus
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Amazing, how irregardless of denomination, the nakedness of Christ is seen as immodest when it should be seen as victory. It is the very nakedness of Christ that clothes us.

71 posted on 03/26/2004 11:25:35 PM PST by lockeliberty (Christ proclaims: "This is Mine!" over the whole plain of human existence.)
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To: Romulus
Careful with the "my Jesus" talk. Jesus is the Truth;

I accept the truth of his unavoidable nakedness on the cross. I also accept the truth that he was usually clothed, as was everyone else in that scenario other than the two thieves. In my meditations, I prefer the clothed version. I never thought of it much otherwise other than some really nasty thoughts about Jesus induced by the devil which I had to put out of my mind. I don't want to dwell there.

82 posted on 03/27/2004 9:33:36 AM PST by Aliska
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