Paintings of Jesus at your church?

[Lamb]

Do you have paintings of Jesus at your church (any room)?

 

[Josiah]

Come to think of it.... no. Kind of surprising, I guess.

 

[Lamb]

Come to think of it.... no. Kind of surprising, I guess.

I'm surprised too. I THINK we have one somewhere at this church I attend, but wow, I can't tell you where it is. At my previous church, we had one in the narthex, so I saw it every Sunday before going into the sanctuary.

 

[Iconoclast]

We are not supposed to make such images;
Deut4:
12 And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

 

[Lamb]

We are not supposed to make such images;
Deut4:
12 And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

That is speaking about images that people were worshiping, and it is forbidden. I'm talking about paintings, not to be worshipped.

 

[Albion]

Do you have paintings of Jesus at your church (any room)?

Yes, but only to the extent of there being a reproduction of the famous "Last Supper" painting.

A church I used to belong to had a painting of the Ascension of Christ, but those are both Biblical scenes, not one of those unrealistic "portrait" type pictures some Christians like and have in their own homes.

 

[NewCreation435]

I have not seen any painting, but there are hallways I have not walked down