PING!
Doesn’t the 2nd commandment fo
rbid physical icons?
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Thank-you and God Bless you for this excellent article.
When reading the postings in this thread in regads to the sad divisions among Christians, no wonder non Christians look at the Christian faith with disdain. The divisions among Christians must stop.
At a time when the Eastern Christians in the Middle East are coming more under attack and during the Christian Lent, a time of Christian spiritual renewel, icons point to the direction of Christ and of God.
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That’s funny, I missed the parts in scripture—Old Testament AND New Testament, where the Prophets, the Apostles, or Jesus Himself recommended pondering images.
It’s too bad they missed that. Great that later, wiser, more godly, mature Christians figured it out though, eh?
The soldier on the right is offering the dying Christ a sponge soaked in vinegar, while the other pierces Him. At the same time, two iconoclasts, John VII Grammatikos and Antony I Kassymatas are whitewashing His Holy Icon with a long pole resembling the instruments of Christ's torture. The vessel with the paint is also similar to the vessel with vinegar.
The Chludov Psalter (ca. A.D. 850)
May the iconoclast heresy along with all Protestant sects be on the ash heap of history soon, in the name of Christ we pray, amen.