Why do Latin's make images of God the Father? That's forbidden

Why do Latin's make images of God the Father? That's forbidden.

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Underage and b&.

not all orthodox obey their own rules

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Ever gone to church yourself?

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This. Unless it's a significant number of people doing it then a few heretics/simple mistake will not effect the entire church. People do foolish things all the time, you can't change that.

t. Ortho

I guess it's the neck mostly, but Christ looks pretty swole in that icon.

Except it's not? No Council spoke against it and even though John Damascene is doctor of the Church it does not mean that he was infallible in all instances.

Hi, /islam/

Exodus 20:4

Now, do you submit to scripture or follow your traditions of man?

Oh look, it's this thread again. When was the last one? Yesterday?

Protestant trying to tell us to follow scripture. That's rich.

Yall need to read some St. John of Damascus
The incarnation actually meant something for iconography, and it's not the the Father can be depicted now

Great Moscow Synod of 1666 forbade depictions of God the Father, themselves a result of Latin influence. But that didn't immediately stop iconographers, and even today, some (often reconstituted) old cathedrals have depictions of God the Father (see ).
But modern canonical iconography indeed doesn't permit images of God the Father. It doesn't fit into the theology of Byzantine iconography (simply put, our icon of the New Testament Trinity is the icon of Jesus Himself) and any serious iconographer would reee at stuff like (where there is the double whammy of the Holy Spirit being portrayed as a dove outside of the Theophany + God the Father being portrayed).

I'd say that the closest thing to a theologically correct Trinity icon without being strictly canonical is pic related. It portrays the concept of interprenetation, it has "the Father" actually being Jesus as the Ancient of Days (see the halo), and it goes back to the Revelation imagery of God and the Lamb sitting on the throne and the river of life proceeding from both.
But it's still not a good icon of the Trinity.

Why are portrayals of the Father not canonical? Not because of anti-Latin autism as with 99% of Orthodox things, but because it is strict in Byzantine theology that only that what was revealed (whether in observable history or in the scriptures) can be portrayed. The Father obviously never showed up as an old bearded man, and all appearances of God in the OT are of the pre-incarnate Logos. The Father can be "seen" as the Hand of God though (something also done in Jewish iconography), or portraying Jesus as the Ancient of Days can link back to the Father without actually showing Him.

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Interpenetration*
It's been a long day, leave me alone

nobody cares

Atleast we follow scripture

Try taking the advice. You might learn something.

And who gave you that?

we do not have pics like that in my church

The Lord?

Aaaaand how do you know that Lord gave you these books and not Gospel of Judas or Apocalypse of Peter?

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Those books were not included in the KJV canon.

So weird how many Anglicans there are on this board

Sola Scriptura right after we get rid of that pesky Apocrypha.

John 10:4-5
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

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So you acknowledge that The Lord is one with his Church? Good, you actually know the scripture.

Now, why don't you do as it says?

t. Moslem

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So did Moses sin a few verses later when God commanded him to build the Ark of The Covenant with two cherubim on it?

Moscow doesn't have authority over other Slavic churches like Bulgaria and Serbia. And similar icons were made by Greeks and Georgians as well. Also, youissed the point, that decrees of local church synod can be changed and is not dogmatic.