Δίδοτε δόξα προς ο θεός, συν προς τον Υιόν αυτού, τον Κυριον και σωτήρ ημών, Ιησούς Χριστος, συν προς τον πνευμάτον αγίον, ὅς ζων και βασιλεύων προς ο Πάτερ Θεός και Υιός νυν και αιώνιος. Αμήν.
Give devotion to your Lord Jesus Christ, for he is our God and savior. He is our master, and we are his servants. Yet he also calls us his friends (John 15:14).
Remember that Jesus is our dear friend who loves us very much. Give all your heart to him. Call upon him as your Lord and bow down to him, confessing his name, and worshiping God the eternal Father through him.
Just like the last thread devoted to our Mother, let us devote this thread specifically to our God and savior whom we worship. You may also post special prayers to Jesus, our God, and anything relating to devotions to Jesus such as to his sacred heart.
Protestants insidiously translate "any graven image," though pesel, eidolon, glupton, and sculptile, in the Heb. Gr. and Lat. denote a graven thing or idol. They will, however, hardly condemn his majesty for having his representation stamped upon the coin of the nation, nor so many of our wealthy noblemen, who adorn their rooms with the choicest efforts of painting and of sculpture. They know that the object of prohibition is the making and adoring of idols. But they probably wish to keep the ignorant under the stupid delusion of supposing, that Catholics are idolaters, because they have images, and that they themselves are not, though they have them likewise at home; and even in their churches admit the absurd figures of the lion and the unicorn, stretching their paws over the tables of the law, instead of the pious representations of Jesus expiring on the cross, &c. which were set up by their Catholic ancestors. Let them read, and adopt herein just weights and measures, proposed to them by Thorndike, one of their most discerning and moderate teachers. In the mean time, we will assure them, that we abhor all idols; both those made with hands, and those which are formed by the head of heretics, who set up their own fancies and delusions, to be adored instead of the true God. Our general councils of Nice and of Trent define what we ought to believe on this head; and the matter is so fully explained in our catechisms and books of instruction, as well as from our pulpits, that no person can well remain in ignorance. If we perform various actions of respect before pictures, which are also done in honour of God, can any man of sense infer, that we look upon both with equal respect? Do we not read of the people falling down to shew respect to the king, and supreme worship to God, by the same act of the body?
Josiah Clark
So just to make sure, you better not have any of the following in your homes:
Jayden Peterson
so basically become amish
Jace Martin
That's essentially what you'd have to do. But I wouldn't expect iconoclasts to be that consistent.
Nolan Gonzalez
Thread theme:
1 Cor. 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Ayden Smith
I guess Samson was shameful for wearing long hair.
Oliver Ross
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Brayden Cruz
Short hair ends at shoulders.
Easton Nguyen
Once again, just like in the last thread, you're denying the reality of the incarnation. God became an image in Jesus, who is the perfect representation of God the Son. By denying images of Christ, you are denying that he is truly God in the flesh and you are instead promoting docetism because in docetism Christ was nothing but a phantasm and not a true image/representation of anything heavenly.
Honestly, some of the most hardcore parts of neoprotestantism are a horrid bouquet of every heresy condemned between the first and seventh council, spoken very fervently and confidently, though mistakently.
And our lovely "friends" in the JW are a extremely perverted version of rehashed arians.
Really, the only thing missing is valentinian gnosticism.
"Dearest God, how did those two heresies get back into the world after all this time? Hell has limited imaginations down there. 'The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Camden Hughes
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Mason King
You are a horrid bouquet of Roman paganism.
Jackson Diaz
If he's trolling he's not interested. If he's serious he's not open to reason.
The first image is made by an 8 year old catholic, and the third image was made by 3rd century Christians, but obviously only JWs think Jesus had short hair, right?
