Maria wrote:WARNING TO ALL: I initially posted the Aleteia web link below in the Women's Forum so that men would not be tempted by the blasphemous nude 3-D sculpture of Christ shown in the article. Yes, Christ was perfect man, but to glorify His humanity as the Neo-Arians do can easily lead to perversion as we must also never forget His Divinity, which is before all time and is everlasting.
Do not watch the video, which displays this sculpture from all angles. No doubt perverts delighted in making this video. https://aleteia.org/2018/03/28/this-3d- ... 7M.twitter
If I had a choice, I would take a saw and save only the bust of this sculpture.
jdigrande wrote:Not sure what this has to do with me? I have not nor will post any photos on this site.
Dear jdigrande,
I was issuing a general warning to all, not warning you specifically.
This was a strong warning against viewing that Aleteia online magazine nude video of Christ because Aleteia has taken demonic Renaissance liberties in permitting a nude image of Christ to be made and displayed. As you know, the Renaissance led to all sorts of perversion, especially the -isms, including atheism, agnosticism, and Protestantism through the worship of the creature, man, instead of the Creator. Instead of respecting the God-Man Christ at His death, His enemies strip Him anew. These professors should have never taken those demonic Renaissance liberties to take precise measurements and to re-create a statue of the nude Christ at death.
Incidentally, the demons had initially rejoiced over the dead body of Christ thinking that they had destroyed Christ. Yet, in three days, He rose from the death destroying Hades and Death.
Whereas the Orthodox Church has focused on the victory of Christ by depicting the Resurrected Christ in her icons, Roman Catholics have focused on the death of Christ with their use of a cold statue of Christ on the Cross.
Note: I am not attacking the depiction of the Crucified Christ, for we use this very image during Holy Week on Good and Holy Thursday and Friday. Echoing the words of St. John Chrysostom in his Paschal Homily:
Let none fear death;
for death of the Saviour has set us free.He has destroyed death by undergoing death.
He has despoiled hell by descending into hell.
He vexed it even as it tasted of His flesh.
Isaiah foretold this when he cried:
Hell was filled with bitterness when it met Thee face to face below;
filled with bitterness, for it was brought to nothing;
filled with bitterness, for it was mocked;
filled with bitterness, for it was overthrown;
filled with bitterness, for it was put in chains.
Hell received a body, and encountered God. It received earth, and confronted heaven.
O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?Christ is risen! And you, o death, are annihilated!
Christ is risen! And the evil ones are cast down!
Christ is risen! And the angels rejoice!
Christ is risen! And life is liberated!
Christ is risen! And the tomb is emptied of its dead;
for Christ having risen from the dead,
is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.To Him be Glory and Power, now and forever, and from all ages to all ages.
Amen!
http://www.orthodoxchristian.info/pages/sermon.htm
In Christ,
Maria