Images of Christ

[BenL]

I'm with you all the way, brother. These are the kinds of things that we tried to bring out in the discussion. How not to confuse the image with the trandscendent reality. As embodied people, we can't help but make images of God. What we have to do is not turn them into graven images that we idolize in place of the reality we are trying to understand.

That reminds me of the word "comprehend," which in its Latin root means to surround completely and to possess something, hence, in English, wrapping your mind around an idea, understanding it. That was one of the beauties of the King James translation of John 1:5: "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

We can never comprehend that light, Paul, merely bask in it. Lucky us.