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“When we make such representation we imagine the human nature of Jesus to be separated from His divine nature. He is God and man in one person. We cannot separate the one nature from the other.”
True, and in no way defending Jesus tattoos or Jan Crouch and the other crazies of her ilk, but for the sake of balance it is not wrong to highlight the humanity of Jesus when appropriate. There are times in the New Testament when that is all we clearly see. Artistic portrayals of Jesus (of which again I am not particularly fond, but for the sake of clarity and balance) are not intended to teach us of Jesus’ deity, but because he was human he could be portrayed as such – indeed, the catacombs of the early church have what experts believe to be ‘representations’ of him. I don’t have them nor do I encourage them, but for the sake of fair representation, these portrayals do not constitute Nestorianism nor do they in and of themselves as some might allege, break the second commandment. They tell us that God became man, that he was with us, that he lived, bled, and died as we do. The danger is when we accept them as the complete picture.
Hmmm. We very often accept such depictions as the complete picture.
Unfortunately yes.