Pictures of Jesus

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dfd2:
This might be a new topic, but dont you think that pictures of Jesus are a violation of the second commandment in the Decalogue?

Deut 5:8 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wow, we've got a lot of stuff to throw out then don't we?

 

Why do you say Jesus would have not been thin? What did he do the last three years here with us on earth? walk and preach. not cut wood.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by flyfree432:
Why do you say Jesus would have not been thin? What did he do the last three years here with us on earth? walk and preach. not cut wood.

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Back to the bus I go........

 

If the Second Commandment was a blanket prohibition against the making of any kind of image at all for any purpose, how could God have been consistent with Himself and still command Moses to make images of cherubim in the construction of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, and the Brass Serpent? (Exodus 25:18; 26:1, 31; Numbers 21:8, 9).

Clearly the prohibition is centered on the worship of images, which the people were wont to do. Indeed, we ourselves tend to think true and spiritual worship is actually in the things we use for worship, so perhaps pics aren't a good thing in corporate worship.

Anyway, those are my thoughts.

Oh, BTW, no painting or drawing of Christ does Him justice: "...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him," Isaiah 53:2. He was not a good-looking man, therefore any true representations would not sell well, but there are no physical descriptions of Christ--except what I quoted above.

Also, how could a sinful man capture the facial expressions of a sinless one? Are there any here that actually think when Christ was angry He looked anything like us when we get angry? What of His weeping? And puh-leeze? Laughing? Not saying He never laughed, but please! There is not one record in the Gospels of Christ laughing. God obviously did not want us to think of His Son in that manner.

I'm rambling. But those are just some thoughts.

 

lol nice one by kathy!
They didn't have power saws back in the day!

[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Jeep Brain ]

 

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. [/b]For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:8-9

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts 17:29-31


[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: ChelleBell ]

 

From drawings of other Jewish figures of the time, Jesus woulg have had slightly longer hair than the Romans with the long, curly sideburns (Jews did not cut these as idol worshipers did) and likely short and stocky.

Also, Isaiah said He was nothing pleasant to look upon. (Isaiah 53:2)

[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Optional ]

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the graven image scriptures specifically refer to worshiping the image as wrong? As long as you aren't worshipping a pictural artistic representation, who cares? I have seen all kinds of pictures representing what different cultures at different times thought he looks like... I think the bible remains silent on his appearance on purpose, it doesn't matter what he looked like on the outside, only who he is on the inside.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by free2know:
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the graven image scriptures specifically refer to worshiping the image as wrong? As long as you aren't worshipping a pictural artistic representation, who cares? I have seen all kinds of pictures representing what different cultures at different times thought he looks like... I think the bible remains silent on his appearance on purpose, it doesn't matter what he looked like on the outside, only who he is on the inside.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


.....For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.--Colossians 2

...we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.--Acts 17

 

There would be nothing wrong with it. In fact, people do all of the time, only in English it's Joshua. Jesus was the Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua.