how come images of jesus on everyday inconspicuios item get all the attention, like grilled chesse sandwhiches or under an overpass, or his face on this potatoe i pulled out of my garden. or a rust stain from a leaking hose on a shed. why can images of say my uncle or castro on a rug stain. or osama's face on a pool of church candle wax. why is it alway jesus
2006-11-04 16:22:16 · 16 answers · asked by darkpheonix262 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they're looking for religion, not the everyday. The spiritual. So you're going to get that which moves your soul (and for most that is Jesus or some other religious icon), rather than your uncle.
2006-11-04 16:24:24 · answer #1 · answered by Madame Gato 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it does no longer look like the Christ. The statue in Brazil would not even look like the Christ! Jesus of Nazareth replaced right into a "JEWISH RABBI"; He replaced into no longer a Caucasian, oriental, black or aboriginal. He replaced right into a "Jew". He might have had thick black 'short' wavy or curly hair. He could have been approximately 5 foot 5 on the tallest, He might have had olive dermis and He had good factors that have been nondescript. interior the e book of Isaiah He replaced into defined via the prophet as somebody who did no longer have the main handsome face (i'm paraphrasing right here). His hands could have been scarred and calloused via the years of toil as a chippie, His ft could have been heavily callused as no person replaced into using approximately in autos in those days. You walked everywhere! very few had a colt or a donkey to journey. He might have had a good sinewy physique and it would have shown a great degree of age and wrinkles on his face as He lived and grew up in a dry environment. no person is familiar with what the Christ Jesus regarded like and a silhouette on an Irish pub does no longer make for a picture of the Messiah. To a drunkard perhaps; yet to the intense eye and the effortless Christian? that may no longer even on the fringe of a picture of the Christ. It does make for a sturdy replica of the Catholic renditions of our Lord over the centuries of arts in faith; regardless of if it relatively is not the Christ. somebody ought to tell the Irish that....
2016-10-15 09:41:51 · answer #2 · answered by raffone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny - no matter what or how Jesus is talked about. Even the atheist who do not believe in God still spend talking about their non belief. Which makes them seem passionate which is an emotion - if you truly did not care about Jesus or God would that not be indifference and you would not even bother to respond to such things?
Sorry got on a soap box there
2006-11-04 16:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by freemansfox 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's called augmentation. Greater meaning is given to things than is actually there, and people augment from objects out of how and what they percieve.
There is nothing wrong with it if kept in its proper perspective, and seen for what it is, rather than for what you want to see. There is a difference between an object used as an aid to faith, and not an object of faith in itself.
2006-11-04 16:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often find this strange since once of the 10 commandements clearly states
Exodus 20:4 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven . . . earth . . . water."
so in essense all those people worshiping sandwiches or stains on a tree whatever are actually going against their own bible... hahaha!
2006-11-04 16:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mintee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Peridolia. People see what they want to see in anything. Our minds are hardwired to look for patterns - otherwise we wouldn't recognize faces or learn languages. But then we look for them in other places, and that's where we go wrong.
2006-11-04 16:28:19 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the time its Elvis
2006-11-04 16:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by tekbot1970 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus wouldn't do that.It is justpeople's superstitions.People are basically idolloters by nature.Romans 1 will tell you that.
2006-11-04 16:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the world is fixated on believing god shows himself on things like that.. like the tortilla in mexico with mother mary's face on it.. come on. the bible says in the new testament that god does not prove himself to you, it would be too easy for you to believe. it's all based on faith.
2006-11-04 16:26:18 · answer #9 · answered by GoTtHeLiFe 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you believe in.usually this image is reflected from your belief to what you saw.
2006-11-04 16:26:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋