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Now I'm not one for images and iconography, but I'm pretty sure the images here are all done in digital pixels on a screen described by transferrable and hostable files. Most of which are of the wrong sort to be graven in the first place.
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The images serve to point to the Holy Trinity, whereby we find the Source of our life and being. Through the sanctifing Body of Christ, our flesh and soul is healed. Through His divine Spirit, our spirits grow in communion with our Father in Heaven, in a communion of eucharistic self-giving, which is the definition of love. This is the love revealed by the Word of God, the incarnate God-Man Jesus Christ. This is the image of the crucified Savior and Suffering Servant as foretold by the Prophets. The One born of a Virgin, the Son of God, the Immanuel, that is, God with us. The Lamb of God by Whose pure blood our sins are forgiven. This is divine love hung upon a cross, given Himself unto mockery and death for the salvation and life of the world.
Wood and paint, letters and words, pages and books, these find their true meaning and fullness in the light of Jesus Christ and the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
An image does not save us, but rather, the Holy Trinity saves us.
A person does not long to be with a mere photograph or picture of a beloved grandmother, but with the grandmother herself, in the flesh, to be able to hold and embrace her, to kiss her and to sing with her. This would be heaven! The good news is that we can indeed reunite in the Kingdom of Heaven!
The images of those we love have value to us, most often over any other material possession we have. But their value and inherent worth is found only in the prototype they are visually pointing towards. An image of Christ, therefore, reminds us of the Son of God Who came into the world, and helps keep our minds focused greater on Him. Put a picture of Christ in the hallway leading to your bedroom, and you will see how often Christ becomes the center of your attention.
The icon of a saint also reminds us of one of the righteous who now stand before the Altar of God, worshiping God and praying for the world. Great men and women who were living icons of the Holy Spirit in the world and whose memory are still commemorated and celebrated, as ones living in Christ, and towards a truly Christian mode of life and being.
Images, whether in wood or in human flesh, re-center our mind's focus and reminds us of God's transcedance as well as His imminence. The goal to all this is true prayer, which is prayerful communion with God in the Holy Spirit. This is the goal and the images and icons (whether on wood or in digitial format, or simply in the mental constructs within our minds) are mere tools and aides in this.
Iconoclasm didn't become a problem for the Church until a couple of centuries after the birth of Islam. Until that time, the early unified Church understood that God had entered into the world and united with creation. They had a very keen understanding and awareness of His imminence, made possible through the incarnation and Pentecost. All food now was good to eat. Through the glory of Pentecost and the economia of the Holy Spirit, even the handkerchief of the Apostle healed the sick and raised the dead, for the grace of the Holy Spirit had entered into the world, and not only the prayers of righteous men availeth much, but even a piece of cloth, all through the grace and power of God.
Before the iconoclastic Muslims began to spread into historical Christian lands, the people seemed to understand the difference between veneration and worship, and the stock of the baptized in those days were not so spiritually weak as to think a picture of a fish would lead to idolatry of fish. Likewise, there is no real inherent problem with images of the divine, but rather if we put the object constructed by man (either in pictures or words, and this includes the inspired Holy Scriptures) above the invisible and omnipotent God. There is no record throughout the whole history of Israel where the statues of the Cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant were feared by the righteous and the prophets to be a danger to lead the faithful to idolatry. God's instructions to Moses to construct the Cherubim statues was done as if to anticipate the iconoclasm of future generations. Today, it seems ,as if many cannot understand the difference between images and idols, or simply don't want to understand.
All images find their value and worth in accordance to what truths they reveal or point to. Eternal and everlasting truths, should be stressed, are found in revelations of God which reveal His presence in the world, now that the Son has united the created with the uncreated and the Spirit has descended to comfort, guide, and sanctify mankind and indeed all life and creation. Now, grace in water, as prefigured in days of old, has rejuvinating and restorative power, and through sanctified water we die and arise in the death and resurrection of Christ. How? It is a mystery of God. Manna coming down from Heaven, also a prefiguring of Christ Who is the Bread of the world. A rock busting forth a spring of life-giving water,,,sanctified oil, bread and wine.
So too grace in pictures and paintings, in symbols and themes. Likewise, the same is true with the Angels and the Saints who are animate and intelligible beings which find divine eternal life through the presence of the Holy Spirit within them. There is no limit to what the Holy Spirit can make sacred and become as a vessel of His power and grace, whether a staff of wood in Moses' hand or the bones of Elisha which raised the dead, or even a handkerchief. It is God Who graces, through the things He chooses to grace, and to the ones He chooses to grace. If God could not do this, He could not be the God of creation.
That which is graven is put above God, and not discerning the One God as the Source and Sustainer of all things. The images and things which are venerated are those things that God has lifted up by His divine power. Apart from Him, they have no worth. Apart from Him, they have no being or existence.
Anyways, I have rambled long enough! I think we discussed this more on HB's thread on icons. I would rather this thread stay on the good news that Jesus, after raising Lazarus from the dead by His word, Himself rose from the dead and gave the proof needed to ignite the courage, faith, and hope of the Apostles and the many hundreds who saw Him alive in those beginning days. And since then and through the ages and up until today, He reveals Himself to those who are pure in heart, for "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God'. Good night friend and God bless you.
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To all my brothers and sisters in Christ celebrating today the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by His death, and to those in the tombs, bestowing life!
Christ is risen!
Truly He is risen!
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by His death, and to those in the tombs, bestowing life!
Christ is risen!
Truly He is risen!
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How the Passion of Christ Reversed the Fall of Adam
- Jesus voluntarily and successfully fasted forty days in the wilderness and overcame the temptations of the devil, because Adam voluntarily yet unsuccessfully kept the God-commanded fast to abstain from the Tree of Knowledge after being tempted by the devil.
- Jesus rebuked Peter as inspired by the devil for trying to dissuade Him from going to Jerusalem to be crucified, because Adam gave in to the suggestion of Eve who was inspired by the devil to eat the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
- Jesus submitted His will to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, because in the Garden of Eden Adam disobeyed the will of the Father.
- Jesus was crucified on the wood of a tree, because the fall of Adam took place through a forbidden tree.
- Jesus' hands were pierced with nails, because Adam held the forbidden fruit.
- Jesus was crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem, because Adam was exiled from Eden.
- Jesus accepted curses and became cursed (Deut. 21:23), to reverse the curse of Adam.
- Jesus was naked on the cross and His garment divided among the soldiers, because Adam lost his innocence in Eden and was clothed with animal skin when exiled from Paradise.
- Jesus' mother was at the foot of the cross, because Adam partook of the forbidden tree with Eve who was the mother of the human race.
- Jesus was given vinegar mingled with gall to drink, because Adam ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
- Jesus was crucified in between two others who represented the way of life and the way of death, because Adam in Eden was presented with two trees that presented both life and death.
- Jesus unlocked the gates of Paradise for the penitent thief, because Adam shut the gates of Paradise.
- Jesus was stabbed on His side after He died, because after Adam was put in a deep sleep Eve was formed from his side.
"Your life-bearing side, O Christ, overflows like a spring from Eden, watering Your Church, and making it a living paradise; then dividing the glad tidings into the four Gospels, as headwaters, it irrigates the world, gladdening creation, and teaching the Gentiles to venerate Your Kingdom."
(The Beatitudes, Service of the Holy Passion)
"O King and Lord, having slept in the flesh as a mortal, You arose on the third day, raising up Adam from corruption, and abolishing Death. O Pascha of incorruption, the salvation of the world."
(Exaposteilarion, Service of the Resurrection)
- Jesus voluntarily and successfully fasted forty days in the wilderness and overcame the temptations of the devil, because Adam voluntarily yet unsuccessfully kept the God-commanded fast to abstain from the Tree of Knowledge after being tempted by the devil.
- Jesus rebuked Peter as inspired by the devil for trying to dissuade Him from going to Jerusalem to be crucified, because Adam gave in to the suggestion of Eve who was inspired by the devil to eat the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
- Jesus submitted His will to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, because in the Garden of Eden Adam disobeyed the will of the Father.
- Jesus was crucified on the wood of a tree, because the fall of Adam took place through a forbidden tree.
- Jesus' hands were pierced with nails, because Adam held the forbidden fruit.
- Jesus was crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem, because Adam was exiled from Eden.
- Jesus accepted curses and became cursed (Deut. 21:23), to reverse the curse of Adam.
- Jesus was naked on the cross and His garment divided among the soldiers, because Adam lost his innocence in Eden and was clothed with animal skin when exiled from Paradise.
- Jesus' mother was at the foot of the cross, because Adam partook of the forbidden tree with Eve who was the mother of the human race.
- Jesus was given vinegar mingled with gall to drink, because Adam ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
- Jesus was crucified in between two others who represented the way of life and the way of death, because Adam in Eden was presented with two trees that presented both life and death.
- Jesus unlocked the gates of Paradise for the penitent thief, because Adam shut the gates of Paradise.
- Jesus was stabbed on His side after He died, because after Adam was put in a deep sleep Eve was formed from his side.
"Your life-bearing side, O Christ, overflows like a spring from Eden, watering Your Church, and making it a living paradise; then dividing the glad tidings into the four Gospels, as headwaters, it irrigates the world, gladdening creation, and teaching the Gentiles to venerate Your Kingdom."
(The Beatitudes, Service of the Holy Passion)
"O King and Lord, having slept in the flesh as a mortal, You arose on the third day, raising up Adam from corruption, and abolishing Death. O Pascha of incorruption, the salvation of the world."
(Exaposteilarion, Service of the Resurrection)
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The Mystery of Life and Renewal
By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos
of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
The Church with its festivities is not content to lead people to psychological respite, but it tries to turn their attention to the core tragic problem that concerns them and, of course, to overcome it. The person of the God-man Christ is always at the center of the festivities, and He is at the center of all history and all humanity, negatively and positively. Indeed, He "is the cause for the fall and rising of many in Israel and a sign to be spoken against" (Lk. 2:34).
The Resurrection of Christ especially is a great historical truth, but at the same time it is a great mystery. It is a truth because it took place in a moment of history, "under Pontius Pilate," but it is also a mystery because it is experienced existentially and personally. It is not only an event of an intellectual conception, but an extraordinary experience of overcoming death within the limits of our personal life.
Certainly there exist historical testimonies for the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, because Christ was a historical person, but there exist existential testimonies that Christ is the conqueror of death, since God raised up human nature and conquered the greatest enemy that torments humanity - death. Witnesses of the Resurrection were the Apostles, the Confessors, the Martyrs, the Venerable Ones, the Holy Fathers, men and women who bravely faced their problems in life with hope in the resurrection. It is those who leave this world "with hope in the resurrection to eternal life." All these shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, refusing biological joys and material pleasures. Therefore, the Resurrection of Christ is not an ideology, a worldview, a metaphysic or a mysticism, but it is true life that transforms the entire human existence and overcomes death, mortality and the corruption of nature, and creates a transformation of the person and a renewal of all creation.
With the resurrection of Christ we come out of the prison of the senses and emotions, from the darkness of hell. In the myth of Plato's Cave we clearly see the tragedy of humanity, since we are forced to live chained in a dark cave while observing shadows, but there is also a human tragedy when we come out of the cave and try to help the other chained captives. In the trilogy of Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer - we are presented with the image of a struggling man to discover the mysteries of nature, and is punished when he exceeds the limits of human nature, and it seems that his punishment did not last forever. It is essentially about the human adventure, who eventually is subjugated to death and awaits a redeemer.
But Christ is not a superman, but the God-man who liberated humanity from the dark prison of the senses and death, and carried over to us the light of divinity, igniting and illuminating us, making us deified, resurrected. With the God-man, biological life gained perspective and was filled with hope and life.
One approaches Christ in accordance with their internal desire and intention. Some rely on Him to put all their internal anxieties, insecurities and sexual failures, which is strange and dangerous. I see Christ, however, through the ecclesiastical poetry and drama, the exalted iconography, the brilliant writings of the Fathers, the heroic lives of the saints, in the forms of the people as reported by Papadiamantis, through the heroic struggles of Makriyiannis, and not through the Enlightenment views of the previous centuries, and those who mimic them in this "new age". The God-man Christ is our light and life, our hope and our everything.
By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos
of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
The Church with its festivities is not content to lead people to psychological respite, but it tries to turn their attention to the core tragic problem that concerns them and, of course, to overcome it. The person of the God-man Christ is always at the center of the festivities, and He is at the center of all history and all humanity, negatively and positively. Indeed, He "is the cause for the fall and rising of many in Israel and a sign to be spoken against" (Lk. 2:34).
The Resurrection of Christ especially is a great historical truth, but at the same time it is a great mystery. It is a truth because it took place in a moment of history, "under Pontius Pilate," but it is also a mystery because it is experienced existentially and personally. It is not only an event of an intellectual conception, but an extraordinary experience of overcoming death within the limits of our personal life.
Certainly there exist historical testimonies for the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, because Christ was a historical person, but there exist existential testimonies that Christ is the conqueror of death, since God raised up human nature and conquered the greatest enemy that torments humanity - death. Witnesses of the Resurrection were the Apostles, the Confessors, the Martyrs, the Venerable Ones, the Holy Fathers, men and women who bravely faced their problems in life with hope in the resurrection. It is those who leave this world "with hope in the resurrection to eternal life." All these shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, refusing biological joys and material pleasures. Therefore, the Resurrection of Christ is not an ideology, a worldview, a metaphysic or a mysticism, but it is true life that transforms the entire human existence and overcomes death, mortality and the corruption of nature, and creates a transformation of the person and a renewal of all creation.
With the resurrection of Christ we come out of the prison of the senses and emotions, from the darkness of hell. In the myth of Plato's Cave we clearly see the tragedy of humanity, since we are forced to live chained in a dark cave while observing shadows, but there is also a human tragedy when we come out of the cave and try to help the other chained captives. In the trilogy of Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer - we are presented with the image of a struggling man to discover the mysteries of nature, and is punished when he exceeds the limits of human nature, and it seems that his punishment did not last forever. It is essentially about the human adventure, who eventually is subjugated to death and awaits a redeemer.
But Christ is not a superman, but the God-man who liberated humanity from the dark prison of the senses and death, and carried over to us the light of divinity, igniting and illuminating us, making us deified, resurrected. With the God-man, biological life gained perspective and was filled with hope and life.
One approaches Christ in accordance with their internal desire and intention. Some rely on Him to put all their internal anxieties, insecurities and sexual failures, which is strange and dangerous. I see Christ, however, through the ecclesiastical poetry and drama, the exalted iconography, the brilliant writings of the Fathers, the heroic lives of the saints, in the forms of the people as reported by Papadiamantis, through the heroic struggles of Makriyiannis, and not through the Enlightenment views of the previous centuries, and those who mimic them in this "new age". The God-man Christ is our light and life, our hope and our everything.
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We Are God's Children Through His Resurrection
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Imagine what a great event has taken place. Humankind who once enjoyed the ideal place to live but lost it and became subject to the passions of a physical life where death always looms in our mind. Losing a perfect life in Paradise humans became self-centered and sinful unable to fulfill the ideals God planed for them. We are all made in His image and called to love our neighbor as we love ourselves and to love God with our whole heart and soul. But fearful of death and sinful, we struggle to fulfill this ideal. We may appear rich on the outside, we have a large house, fine clothes, a beautiful automobile, but on the inside our souls are unclean.
After a long period of time from the event of our creation, and after many attempts to prod us to reclaim our place in Paradise, a great day came. A king came, not an earthly king, but the true king of the universe, He who created all we know out of nothing and Who directs the universe. This king we lovingly know a Jesus Christ.
Christ is the king who saw our unclean state of our soul and our suffering and self-centered way of life. He had compassion for His creation and cleansed us with His priceless blood He shed for us on the Cross and clothed us anew with the robe of resurrection, and made us His children.
A good child is one who loves his parents and who obeys their instruction. A good parent loves and cares for His children. Christ and His Father, who is our father, are the perfect parents and want to raise us as their perfect children. In this way, God is glorified.
When Christ was resurrected after His cruel crucifixion we were raised from darkness to light and from a miserable state to paradise. Here is how Holy Scripture describes th effect of His Crucifixion and Resurrection: "But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name" (John 1:12).
Christ seeks all of us. He does not want to discriminate. When we believe in Christ and are baptized we become true children of God. We are transformed and protected by His grace. We are nurtured in His Church as we strive to become like Him, to become good children and glorify His name. This is a path that is open to everyone no matter what their nationality, no matter what time they live, no matter what their language, nor their sex. All can become His adopted children.
With the Resurrection and our faith we become a Child of God! We no longer have the fear of death which most people in the world fear. Knowing the future of our resurrection if we follow Him, death offers no fear. Christ has conquered death by His death and Resurrection. We have become a blessed child of God. Now, we too can have eternal life with Him and return to Paradise.
Let's give thanks for this great blessing that has been given to us through His death on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection. We worship and we glorify Him now and forever unto the ages of ages.
Christ is Risen! Truly He has Risen!
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Imagine what a great event has taken place. Humankind who once enjoyed the ideal place to live but lost it and became subject to the passions of a physical life where death always looms in our mind. Losing a perfect life in Paradise humans became self-centered and sinful unable to fulfill the ideals God planed for them. We are all made in His image and called to love our neighbor as we love ourselves and to love God with our whole heart and soul. But fearful of death and sinful, we struggle to fulfill this ideal. We may appear rich on the outside, we have a large house, fine clothes, a beautiful automobile, but on the inside our souls are unclean.
After a long period of time from the event of our creation, and after many attempts to prod us to reclaim our place in Paradise, a great day came. A king came, not an earthly king, but the true king of the universe, He who created all we know out of nothing and Who directs the universe. This king we lovingly know a Jesus Christ.
Christ is the king who saw our unclean state of our soul and our suffering and self-centered way of life. He had compassion for His creation and cleansed us with His priceless blood He shed for us on the Cross and clothed us anew with the robe of resurrection, and made us His children.
A good child is one who loves his parents and who obeys their instruction. A good parent loves and cares for His children. Christ and His Father, who is our father, are the perfect parents and want to raise us as their perfect children. In this way, God is glorified.
When Christ was resurrected after His cruel crucifixion we were raised from darkness to light and from a miserable state to paradise. Here is how Holy Scripture describes th effect of His Crucifixion and Resurrection: "But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name" (John 1:12).
Christ seeks all of us. He does not want to discriminate. When we believe in Christ and are baptized we become true children of God. We are transformed and protected by His grace. We are nurtured in His Church as we strive to become like Him, to become good children and glorify His name. This is a path that is open to everyone no matter what their nationality, no matter what time they live, no matter what their language, nor their sex. All can become His adopted children.
With the Resurrection and our faith we become a Child of God! We no longer have the fear of death which most people in the world fear. Knowing the future of our resurrection if we follow Him, death offers no fear. Christ has conquered death by His death and Resurrection. We have become a blessed child of God. Now, we too can have eternal life with Him and return to Paradise.
Let's give thanks for this great blessing that has been given to us through His death on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection. We worship and we glorify Him now and forever unto the ages of ages.
Christ is Risen! Truly He has Risen!
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"According to Orthodox doctrine there is no competition of "lives" between God and Jesus, and no competition of "powers." The power of God and the power of Jesus, the life of God and the life of Jesus, are one and the same power and life. To say that God has raised Christ, and that Christ has been raised by his own power is to say essentially the same thing. "For as the Father has life in himself," says Christ, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself" (John 5:26). "I and the Father are one" (Jn 10:30)."
The Orthodox Church believes in Christ's real death and his actual resurrection. Resurrection, however, does not simply mean bodily resuscitation. Neither the Gospel nor the Church teaches that Jesus was lying dead and then was biologically revived and walked around in the same way that he did before he was killed. In a word, the Gospel does not say that the angel moved the stone from the tomb in order to let Jesus out. The angel moved the stone to reveal that Jesus was not there (Mk 16; Mt 28).
In his resurrection Jesus is in a new and glorious form. He appears in different places immediately. He is difficult to recognize (Lk 24:16; Jn 20:14). He eats and drinks to show that he is not a ghost (Lk 24:30, 39). He allows himself to be touched (Jn 20: 27, 21:9). And yet he appears in the midst of disciples, "the doors being shut" (Jn 20:19, 26). And he "vanishes out of their sight" (Lk 24:31). Christ indeed is risen, but his resurrected humanity is full of life and divinity. It is humanity in the new form of the eternal life of the Kingdom of God.
So it is with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raked in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.
Thus, it is written, the first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam [i.e. Christ] became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, then the spiritual.
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The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man from heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have home the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven (1 Cor 15:42-50).
- the recently reposed Father Thomas Hopko
The Orthodox Church believes in Christ's real death and his actual resurrection. Resurrection, however, does not simply mean bodily resuscitation. Neither the Gospel nor the Church teaches that Jesus was lying dead and then was biologically revived and walked around in the same way that he did before he was killed. In a word, the Gospel does not say that the angel moved the stone from the tomb in order to let Jesus out. The angel moved the stone to reveal that Jesus was not there (Mk 16; Mt 28).
In his resurrection Jesus is in a new and glorious form. He appears in different places immediately. He is difficult to recognize (Lk 24:16; Jn 20:14). He eats and drinks to show that he is not a ghost (Lk 24:30, 39). He allows himself to be touched (Jn 20: 27, 21:9). And yet he appears in the midst of disciples, "the doors being shut" (Jn 20:19, 26). And he "vanishes out of their sight" (Lk 24:31). Christ indeed is risen, but his resurrected humanity is full of life and divinity. It is humanity in the new form of the eternal life of the Kingdom of God.
So it is with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raked in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.
Thus, it is written, the first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam [i.e. Christ] became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, then the spiritual.
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The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man from heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have home the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven (1 Cor 15:42-50).
- the recently reposed Father Thomas Hopko
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Because He suffered and died and those He died for mock Him.
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Better to ask why it images of God are sinful according to the Bible.
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No, it was not His intent. It is because of the evil in men that He suffered and died, so that through His suffering, men might find salvation, which is His intent.
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Worship of images are sinful. Worship with images is according to the will of God, which is why He instructed Moses to build statues of Cherubim and why He appeared to man so that we might see and know the face of God.
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