Posted on 10/03/2011 7:37:47 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
A 24-year-old woman from Maryland claims the Savior has appeared on the Nintendo set she bought on eBay.
Brittany Wampler spotted the image of Jesus Christ on top of one of the two newly purchased Nintendo sets she received from an eBbay seller, she told Kotaku, an online publication covering the gaming industry.
"We were inspecting it for cracks/damage and when we turned it just right into the light, the image showed up," she told Kotaku. "Our reaction was mainly curiousity [sic] at first. Then as we looked at it closer and ruled out what it couldn't be, we began to get excited about it."
The image, which Wampler sent to Kotaku at their request, appears to show a blurred human face with long hair and a short beard.
Wampler reportedly dismissed the possibility that the image had to do with a form of supernatural intervention. However, she specified that the design was a part of the plastic covering, not residue. She also assured the publication that she did not create the image, or Photoshop the photo. She said she wasn’t sure about the exact origin of the image.
"I was raised religious, but I haven't made up my mind really," she told Kotaku.
When pressured to answer if she believed that the image might be a form of Jesus’ apparition, she reportedly said that she believes the possibility.
Instances when an image of a divine figure seems to appear somewhere in everyday life tend to evoke a lot of excitement - both among believers and non-believers.
Such cases of "apparitions" touching the mundane life of mortals happen surprisingly often.
CP reported earlier this months that a French photographer caught an image of a “divine figure” with a halo on his camera when he was climbing in the mountains. In this case, the photographer admitted that, despite the unique, divine feel of the event, he believes the phenomenon could probably be explained scientifically.
In July, a couple from South Carolina reported seeing the face of Jesus Christ on a Walmart receipt.
Other sources have also reported cases in which Jesus’ face reportedly appeared on objects like a frying pan, tree trunk or a piece of toast.
Thank you dcs. That’s one of the best posts I’ve ever seen on the Religion Forum. Its sums up the silliness so well, I’ve copied and pasted it to my profile page for posterity.
Thank you, dsc.
Very good and thoughtful post.
"In July, a couple from South Carolina reported seeing the face of Jesus Christ on a Walmart receipt."
I just love a good "miracles, signs, wonders, and visions" story. Have you ever been to the People of Walmart website? I think that's what it's called. Full of potential "visions of Jesus on my chicken biscuit" people.
Nailed it, DSC...
And don't let the imaginary door hit them on their hypothetical way out.
Dueling tag lines...
btw, a Mormon would answer as post 51. Remember that to them there was no Resurrection.
FWIW I view the problem differently. One purpose of rules is, so to speak, to keep bloodshed down to a minimum.
Rules cannot always inculcate or ensure virtue any more than the rules of football can make people gentle and ensure a pain-free game.
And it is part of our fallenness that when we see rules we tend to test their limits. How many of us, seeing a “55 MPH” sign, think it means, “Keep it under 60 MPH.”
So the rules of the forum will not be used as encouragements to charity and gentleness but as outer limits to permissible verbal cruelty. If we don’t like the way our antagonists express themselves, even when they comply with the rules, we can appeal to them and to our Lord. But I don’t see how we can expect of anyone who says “simul justus et peccator” that he stop being a sinner.
We Catholics have a burden not shared by Protestants, to bear all things,to endure all things, and when we see gross injustice from our antagonists to remember that we also are unjust.
This is not some treacly piety and I make absolutely no claim whatsoever to any success in following my own opinion.
Yeah, they’re sinners. So are we. Yeah, they sometimes seem to set out to cause pain. Even if one day with a straight face I could claim to be innocent of that sin, I still hope I would remember the pains of St. Francis and the pains of our Lord and TRY to accept this as part of the gentle yoke which I pretend to shoulder willingly.
So, yeah, it’s irritating. Were we ever told that it would be otherwise?
Thanks dsc...well said.
I guess I don’t get the issue. Why shouldn’t Jesus appear on a Nintendo? He appeared as a human. After that could anything be more humiliating, unworthy, or inappropriate of the Son of God?
As to recognizing such an apparition or vision, as to Peter at Caesaria Philippi so also to us: to recognize the Lord is an operation of the Holy Spirit.
And if this event, whatever it is, leads this person to increased piety and devotion, then what’s the problem?
Just as no one is required to believe that this is meaningful so also no one is required to scoff. I certainly am not going to tell my Lord to whom and how he may appear.
Who said there was an issue? Who made it a requirement to react one way or another? Not I. Maybe Catholics should be posting these apparitions as "Devotional" threads, if they're so concerned about them being disrespected.
Sometimes the problem isn’t “the rules,” its their erratic pattern of application. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
LOL!
Have you seen any black helicopters lately?
And you're sure of this how?
That's quite an assumption to make about others. Your basis for it is....______________?
INDEED.
LOL.
Absolutely INDEED.
Very well put.
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