Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.christnet.christianlife,alt.bible,alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic,alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox Subject: Re: Images and their use in the Orthodox Church. Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:22:43 -0600 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:00:30 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="d193e872d1e24a3037ee30f47146a21e52b80d1b"; logging-data="1158702"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.christnet.christianlife:1041557 alt.bible:654268 alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic:1154578 alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox:195609 On 12/26/22 13:51, Dr. Who wrote: > > Christians live between the two comings of Christ. They remember His first > coming to be sacrificed. They anticipate His second coming to reign. This is > vividly portrayed in traditional Orthodox church buildings where the "royal > gates" of the icon screen in front of the altar table are flanked by the > icons of the Theotokos and Child on the one side, and the Lord Jesus in glory > on the other. To the uninitiated it may seem as though these are simply > pictures of Mary and Jesus put on the same level. This is not so. The icons > which frame the Orthodox altar are images of the two comings of Christ. The second coming happened 1900 years ago with the destruction of the temple. The Christian Church is a 1800 year exercise in denial of the second coming, disguised as an always future event. Jesus already returned and destroyed the temple as he promised he would. He said that the Apostle John would remain alive on earth until Jesus returned again to establish the kingdom. Jesus said many of the people of that generation would still be alive to witness the destruction of the old world and the ushering in of the new. The Church is late to the party. -- Nightbulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. If tacky red hats annoy Pharisees I want to buy hats for the whole town.