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To: seemoAR

Beauty is also from God.

Outward appearance is not precisely what I’m getting at, it’s the inward shining through.

And, if you look at some of the early Christ Pantocrator icons or representations of the Shroud of Turin... I wouldn’t call these “beautiful” or “handsome”, though I wouldn’t call them “ordinary” either.


73 posted on 12/21/2008 3:02:41 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
I searched for “Christ Pantocrator”. It seems the earliest remaining ones are from Italy. The earliest one was painted centuries after Jesus lived on earth.
74 posted on 12/21/2008 3:49:12 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: D-fendr

And those who worship the flesh will die with it.

That’s all it ever was intended to do in the first place. Tempt the faithful to the sins of the flesh.

And it will all go away so quickly and leave them with empty souls with nowhere to go. Well without a good place to go that is......


75 posted on 12/21/2008 4:02:06 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
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