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To this I reply with John 3:16 and 1 Peter 3:19. I would say that His ways defies our worldly logic and expectations. And this is because His kingdom is not of this world. The problem is how we perceive God and salvation. In my church (Orthodox Church), salvation is not something that...

As opposed to the religious imagery existing nowadays which represents how people imagine God, the icon represents how God chooses to present Himself to the world. Moses wasn't present at the creation of Adam and Eve, yet, we, the Church, believe him. Depends what church we talk about. I...

Yes. And since we have the knowledge of God's love for us - proven by the acceptance of God the Son to incarnate and defeat the devil under the conditions created by the fall of Adam, that is, not by using divine power, but, paradoxically, through suffering and death - we would be right to...

As for the way he sits on the colt, the canonic way of representing it is with both feet on one side. Images that represent Him otherwise are rejected by the Church.

The icon represents how the Church sees and understands the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. It isn't merely a tautologic visual version of the biblical verses depicting the event, but there is more to it. It is full of theological meaning. It is not (only) about an event that took place...

It means that Esau's time was not then, not that God ignores him forever. With Esau God had other plans.

I recommend you to read the book Jesus, The Son of Man, by Khalil Gibran. The book shows the perspective of different people (Matthew, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea, Judas the Iscariot, Pilates, Caiaphas, a widow, a shepherd, John etc.) on Jesus Christ after they meet Him.

The word "hate" is a Hebraism which does not contradict the nature of God, it simply indicates the secondary position of Esau in the order of God's preferences. The same word is used in Luke 14:26. The idea is not that of hatred, but of position in a hierarchy; rephrased, it would be like this...

Hi everyone! Since this Sunday we (the orthodox Christians) will celebrate the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, I wanted to submit to your eyes the images above which depict the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (a pagan Roman emperor that lived in the 2nd century A.D.) and...

The Holy Eucharist is the reason for the Sacrifice on the cross. So we, too, can partake in the life of the Triune God. From the body and blood of Jesus Christ, we receive power to deny this world, we receive true life, life in Christ. We have spiritual bodies, too. Not only carnal. By eating...

Uhm... no. Just no. Christianity is about eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus Christ under the image of bread and wine. We do this in remembrance of His sacrifice on the cross. His sacrifice on the cross was once far all. Not the Holy Eucharist. This is every Sunday and in some...

Jesus Christ was crucified on Friday. In the Old Testament, darkness is called night and light is called day. The darkness that prevailed over everything during crucifixion, from noon to 3 P.M. is the first night. The second night is Friday to Saturday and the third night Saturday to Sunday.

Scary...

I already gave the source and the quotation in my post nr. 3. Herod ordered the execution of all boys under the age of two and NOT EVEN HIS OWN SON was spared from the massacre. I will ... re-write it...and I will put in bold the reference to the Holy Innocents. In the book Saturnalia, written...

So, in the icons, Elijah is portrayed with long hair and Elisha is portrayed (most of the time) half-bald.

It has to do with the slaughter of the innocents... it is a commentary about it, and it's from a book, other than the Bible. The purpose of my post was to highlight the fact that this biblical account of Herod ordering the slaughter of the children under the age of two (an account which is...

From the Bible... why would the children call him bald if he weren't? I searched icons of him and he is portrayed as being half-bald. Edit: actually, I found icons where he has hair all over his head...

More than 42 because it says that the bears mauled 42 of the boys. We don't know how many. Once Elisha turned around and looked at them, some of them stopped jeering (those weren't attacked). I don't know about Elisha's age. He was actually bald. For the Jews of that time, baldness was...

As I was doing a research for my diploma, I accidentally fell on a quotation by Caesar Augustus (aka Octavian, the first Roman emperor) in the book Saturnalia written by Macrobius. In book two, Macrobius records some of the witty sayings of Octavian and there reports: "On hearing that the son...