Please stop posting pictures of a man depicting Jesus Christ.
Would you ladies, like it if your husband posted a picture of another women and said it was you. Or men, would you like it if your wife posted a picture of another man and said it was you?
God made it clear that we were not to make images of Him. In the minds of human beings they tend to adore and idolize things depicting God.
It is one things to have a picture of your family, the people in the photo really are those people. Its quite another to pretend what God looks like when there were never any photos of Him.
God wants us to worship in Spirit and in truth, not by sight. We do not worship because we see something or feel something, we worship because of Who God is and His Truth.
John 4:24 "24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”"
I am convinced that God never allowed any relics or artifacts that He used or lived with because the first thing humans would do would be to worship the objects rather than the creator of the objects.
Romans 1:24-25 "…24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. "
When I left the Catholic church the first things that went out of my home were the statues and pictures depicting Jesus. No one told me I should do it. The Holy Spirit made me very uncomfortable with them, so I went to the Bible to find out why. It was clearly written there why God wanted me to worship Him not objects or ideas of Him.
We can never have a "relationship" with an object or an idea of God, we can only have a relationship with Christ Himself, the God that lives in born again believers.
John 4:23-24
"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
If you must have objects to be able to believe or worship then you have either a weak faith or no faith at all.
Romans 12:1-2
"I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
Revelation 4:11
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will, they existed and were created.”
1 John 1:3
"That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ."
