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Posted on 12/29/2020 5:48:10 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is being filmed right now. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year's viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: "Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast." Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I've ever spent (I don't recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 43 years ago).
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From the sublime to the ridiculous....
Why do you post salacious material? Queen Esther was a Saint.
You will be glad to learn, I expect, that this constitutes the entirety of my illustration of Esther's sexual conquest of Ahasuerus and that no pictures follow illustrating their conjugal sexual relationship.
Aunt Esther registers her disapproval of some of today’s paintings! LOL.
Thank you for that beautiful mosaic at #13 and for the stained glass windows.
I agree with Aunt Esther’s disapproval but felt called to post them regardless.
If you click “Image Source” on #12, you’ll find her interesting series of mosaics on Esther.
LOL! :-)
Please add me to your ping list.
Thank you,
Ibheath
In nursing, we have an acronym for “Activities Of Daily Living”, called “ADL’s”. This includes bathing, teeth-brushing, dressing, hair care, and general grooming.
Unfortunately the French word for ADL’s is “Toilette” from which we get the English word “Toilet”, the famous bathroom fixture that goes by more rude names because of its function.
Unfortunately Victorian Artists still used the word “Toilet” to mean “ADL’s”, thus creating hilarity among art students to this very day.
My hope for these threads is that the Lord will use them to bring every viewer closer to Him, through His Word and the art.
On three occasions I have solicited help from all the Ping-Listers: once for a brief survey of their recommendations, again for advice, and most recently for prayer over a new challenge I was facing. I expect I’ll need to do that again, so this is fair warning.
Finally, please feel free to join our discussion, as the Holy Spirit prompts you. As you can see on today's thread, we are frank and forthright.
Dan
Art students are easily amused, it seems, perhaps part of what appears to be a general lowering of standards, if their predilection for soft-porn is any indication (seems like Alba complained about that recently, or perhaps Pat or Debbie). A libertine bunch...but don’t take that personally!
Well I’m not an art student anymore, so no offense taken.
I am, however, an Art Teacher, and we’re even WORSE! :-)
Thanks for the warning. And here you’d seemed so innocuous! But forewarned is forearmed: I’ll keep my guard up and move continuously. You can’t hit what you can’t catch.
LOL!
Never complained about anything you post, Dan. I take the good, the mediocre, the bad, without judgement. If you want me to verbally express my disgust for art just name that monstrosity Pope Frankie had the audacity to put in St. Peter’s square as the official Vatican Nativity. Never seen anything so inappropriate and disgusting for that sacred and wondrous moment for Christianity.
The point is: SHE DID NOT NEED TO COOPERATE! Like Bathsheba, like Rahab, like Sarah in offering her servant, she willingly acceded to, and thus promoted, man's basest drive. Yes, it was a patriarchal culture, but God transcends culture. That picture, in my view, forces us to focus on this otherwise-unstated issue.
As it does so often when relating these real-life stories, the Bible leaves it to us to ponder on God's truths. Why, when the Gentile Ruth was so desperate, didn't she simply offer herself to the fieldhands? Now there is a woman who earned her crown in Jesus' ancestry. Rahab came around, and she's in it, too.
Esther finally shaped up, too, so we have her story, and some now call her "saint." But let's not forget how it began.
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