Catholic ping!
Orthodox ping!
Each one has a long stick of a sort....hmmmm
This (image) is an obvious reference to the 3 “men” or “messengers” who visited Abram (Genesis 18). Read the chapter VERY carefully. This, Genesis 1, are some of the earliest hints on God’s Triune Nature.
Jesus said no one has seen the Father except...
Clearly this image of three bodily forms is incorrect.
Note however, that Man was created in God’s image. Like God, we are triune in nature, we have a body, a soul, and a spirit. In a Christian’s case, he is “born again” that is, the dead spirit he was born with is replaced with a new spirit. The spiritual death of Adam and Eve on the day they ate the apple is in picture.
The 7th Ecumenical Council DID NOT proclaim that images of The Father could be made!
Here is what the Council Fathers proclaimed:
“We define that the holy icons, whether in color, mosaic, or some other material, should be exhibited in the holy churches of God, on the sacred vessels and liturgical vestments, on the walls, furnishings, and in houses and along the roads, namely the icons of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, that of our Lady the Theotokos, those of the venerable angels and those of all saintly people. Whenever these representations are contemplated, they will cause those who look at them to commemorate and love their prototype. We define also that they should be kissed and that they are an object of veneration and honor (timitiki proskynisis), but not of real worship (latreia), which is reserved for Him Who is the subject of our faith and is proper for the divine nature, ... which is in effect transmitted to the prototype; he who venerates the icon, venerated in it the reality for which it stands.”
The Russians are right! Depictions of the Father are heretical and absurd, no matter what my people have, in the past, done!
Just Beautiful!
Beautiful.
One of the most interesting short articles I’ve read here in 15 years. Good Post Thanks.