In Reply to: Re: I think sacredness posted by CB on January 07, 2007 at 20:09:54:
Sorry, but there seems to be a very fine line.
You can mock the word of God (disobey it) ...and in the end you hurt yourself...you can mock in a bar (behind her back) the woman you're married to & in the end you might loose her, because she's tired of being abused..by word & whatnot.
You think a picture is "only" a picture?...Why would the word of God be against idolatry...cause people start worshipping something else...have you seen clever forgeries,manipulations,deceptions of the mind/eyes...hallucinations...so one thinks something is which isn't or you wonder what really is...it's a bit too cheap IMO, to think, one cannot fall prey to that, always being able to discern that...what's the real Jesus? & if the real Jesus wasn't like the one portrayed in the clip, what's the use in misportraying Him, if it's not for the "simple" fact of showing dislike about HIM.
And if someone dislikes Him, the question is, did he have the real Jesus....facts...in mind or something else...the scribes knew so much about the long expected Messiah...Herod even asked them, where he should be born etc...that rejecting Him
...mocking Him etc was worse then some unbelief of some illiterate, IMO
The publicans, harlots & sinners had some real repentance & got baptised...the scribes often
didn't want to, just watched the crowd...cause they didn't think to be blind (spiritually)...their sin remained...So my sadness is about people who think to be enlightened...seing...when they're actually still blind & their sin remains...to their disadvantage
& it doesn't help anyone sinking, if he mocks the
coast-guards....and in the clip it seems to me, "indirectly"...the real Jesus gets mocked...through a misconcept about Him (what have e.g. diapers/immaturity/incontinence to do with Jesus??)...I understand that pictures are not the real things...tell that a Thai, while you stomp on the picture of the king of Thailand...it's the idea behind the stomping which causes the rage...I'd figure.