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Monday, July 26th, 2010Icon Jesus
Catholics only plz: Why do churches use an icon of God the Father if the Father never assumed human flesh?
I understand the use of images of Jesus and all, since the images depict the human nature of Jesus and not the Divine nature, since God's nature has no form. I'm not against imagery but only against depictions of God's nature. But why do some catholic churches have icons of God the Father if he never assumed flesh??? God the father only has a Divine nature so isn't that idolatry since one is depicting God's Divine nature?
Thx for the feedback! God bless!
What do you mean by icons?
We have images of God, that is what we imagine God would look like, not a portrait.
Actually we don't know exactly what Jesus looked like, so images are there to remind us of what the represent, those images are not the focus of our Worship.
I hope this helps!
Peace!
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The Early Byzantine Architecture was a continuation of Roman Architecture. The invasion of Arabs in the seventh century however, coupled with the rise of Islam, led to the 'Iconoclastic Period,' marked with human blasphemy. Iconoclasm is a Greek word for "image-breaking," and therefore, the period was all about deliberately defaming important 'Symbolic' images (or icons), pertaining to a religion or society.
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