Posted on 07/24/2020 4:21:45 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year’s viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).
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A Dramatic Moment! :-)
Glad you saw it.
Portraying lightning, fire and thunder is quite an artistic challenge, but somehow implying thunder and “the whole mountain trembled violently” add a whole new and higher hurdle. Saw one or two who seemed to succeed.
Yes. There were a few that were really cool.
I've taken an active interest in astronomy for sixty years and am Christian astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross' friend and biggest booster. That is obviously the Andromeda Galaxy, at two million light-years distance. What took that photo at a distance sufficient to shrink our star to apparent insignificance? Surely not Hubble. Voyager? The specific source of the picture, if you please.
If you answer, I will top your picture and reinforce your point, not that it needs strengthening. And your photo, and mine, fit this thread: this is God's art.
We think that we’re it, but when you pull back and really look you can see how really insignificant we are - but yet God knows us, in all the infinite universe He knows us, individually.
Wow! That is my favorite thread topic so far!
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What—God showing off? LOL
Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest patch of sky they could find and left the shutter open for ten days. Their goal was to take a galaxy census sample. The sky area is what you'd see through a drinking straw--about one-twelfth the moon's apparent diameter. There are only three foreground stars in this photo, recognizable by camera-spikes. Every other visible object is a distant galaxy. As a direct result, astronomers doubled their estimate of galaxies in the observable universe, to 400,000,000,000.
You make a profound point, but there is a fact which adds yet another depth to it. Under the physical laws God chose in creating this (finite) universe, it requires a universe this inconceivably immense in order to yield just this one planet capable of indefinitely supporting advanced life, and here we are. God created all this cosmos just for us, so of course He knows us.
How can you not be completely humbled by this?
As a lay person I did a sermon years ago using a similar image (the same image?) as a prop. (Before the screen presentations and had it printed on a large poster).
The sermon was about the love, grace and power of God. And this image shows not only how vast all of creation is - but how vast all of the attributes of God are.
I commented something like “You know how as a parent we tell our child ‘I love you THIS much’ and spread out our arms as wide as they can go? I wonder if God created this immense universe as if spreading His arms wide and saying ‘I love you THIS much!’”
Obviously the image of “our galaxy” is either an artist’s rendition, or perhaps of a similar spiral galaxy to give an idea of where we sit.
One of the Voyager’s did pass out of our solar system a few years ago. IIRC it was still sending back data - but no photos. I think it may have been “shut down” in hopes of booting it up again at some time?
What request?
I assume your question is rhetorical, because I indicated my awe at the immensity of God’s creation, just for us.
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