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To: Notwithstanding
Actually, most Protestants I know get REALLY MAD when Catholic art or a necklace depicts Christ crucified upon the cross.

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. [IICor 5:16]

I don't get really mad (or mad at all, for that matter), it's just a doctrinal disagreement I suppose. This is why protestants are generally not big on statues/statuettes and the like.

11 posted on 01/03/2002 7:48:53 AM PST by Egg
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To: Egg
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. [IICor 5:16]

What does this quote have to do with images of Christ? I guess we do have doctrinal disagreements! You've taken this totally out of context. Paul is writing that should our earthly dwelling, a tent, be destroyed, we have a heavenly dwelling built not by human hands but by God waiting for us, and we yearn for it. What does his discourse have to do with viewing an image of Christ?

30 posted on 01/03/2002 9:41:42 AM PST by ThomasMore
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