This is why we do not have any true image of The Christ, because (though a human as born possesses not the substance of The God as The Christ did/does), each human is imprinted with the face of The God, as The Christ was. Christ in form and face was accepted by mankind as of their/our kind, not necessarily being particularly 'beautiful' according to worldly standards (Is. 53:2), yet not being deformed by the effects of inborn Sin, as for some of us occurs.
Of course, though unique, certainly His face represented one of a thousand million ways The God chooses to show each of us as being a likeness of Him. Having a face of God does not make one of the substance of God, but it does stamp us as His Special Creation, made for fellowship with and love for/by Him, which no other creature was made to enjoy.
We need to realize that the most noxious, sin-ravaged, God-rejecting fellow creature is less repugnant to the Righteous God than His Only-begotten-in-the-flesh Son was when He bore all our sins in His Body on The Tree, and for which He suffered the eternal burning of Hell and the Lake of Fire in our place.
His Blood shed there was sufficient to wash away any fault in a human's flesh, soul, and spirit that would prevent The God from offering again his friendship, the Love of God in Christ Jesus. Would Christ loving a human wreck not be His seeing His own face and form imprinted on that poor creature? Were/are you not one of those? Is not loving another with the sovereign love of God the same as discerning the face of The God stamped upon another human?
For that is exactly what taking forth The Gospel of Christ to bring the news of reconciliation really is. Without it, you have no Gospel.
But the movie "Les Miserables" (haven't seen it, probably won't) may perhaps not be exactly out of Victor Hugo's fingertips (have read that several times), but the Christian theme of sovereign preference for another, over self and others, is what seeing the face of God in another is all about. N'est ce pas?
This has turned ridiculous. This thread started out as a movie thread not a religion thread . I am officially done with this thread