Christianity has many denominations that we only has created through all these years of development, according to our belief and family orientation we have been following one or another division. Certain churches will have certain particularities according to their belief also, Roman catholic churches are known for its architectural beauty, the synagogues are a part of our history same like protestant churches especially CSI churches are also the ancient ones and treated as a study material about the evolution of Christianity in Kerala. Every division of the Christianity believes in the 10 commandments which the almighty has given to us through the prophet Moses at the Seenai,
We the protestant Christians approach to the commandments very seriously, The fact that God the Father would manifest these 10 specific commandments on a tablet of stone tells us how serious He is about these specific commandments!
The 10 commandments are explained in the Exodus 20:1-17. The second commandment out of these has some relation with the present issue happened in the English church recently...
You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. This is the second commandment and through this the almighty instruct his followers not to make any image or likeness of anything that is in heaven water or in the land, and not to bow or worship those , of what ever it may be...!!!
Here the issue is about an ancient portrait of Mary, mother of the Jesus... It is a fact that this particular portrait was kept in the holy altar of the English church for more than 145 years, but it is another fact that we protestant Christians does not accept Mary as a mediator in our prayers as some other denominations do... we respect her as the mother of our Lord, but do not remember her as a mediator between us and the almighty. So what is the point in keeping her portrait in the holy alter....? where we will not keep that of our lord Jesus even... altar in the protestant church always keep a Cross only, to remember that Jesus Christ had given his life over this to save us from the sin...!!! and in that place we had a portrait all these years and if some one initiated to regularize it now means we should appreciate it and also be ashamed that we couldn't think about it yet.
Here the issue is about an ancient portrait of Mary, mother of the Jesus... It is a fact that this particular portrait was kept in the holy altar of the English church for more than 145 years, but it is another fact that we protestant Christians does not accept Mary as a mediator in our prayers as some other denominations do... we respect her as the mother of our Lord, but do not remember her as a mediator between us and the almighty. So what is the point in keeping her portrait in the holy alter....? where we will not keep that of our lord Jesus even... altar in the protestant church always keep a Cross only, to remember that Jesus Christ had given his life over this to save us from the sin...!!! and in that place we had a portrait all these years and if some one initiated to regularize it now means we should appreciate it and also be ashamed that we couldn't think about it yet.
We have already mentioned in an earlier post that "Christianity has always faced a lot of struggle to advance to this stage.... to day also we are facing such issues that we faced all these years,
but the real problem we are facing now a days is not the threat from out side it is right from our side, from our own church people." it is once again clarified by this issue. there are believers in this church to approach the district collector to keep that portrait again in the church altar..!!! what should we call them...??? it is a fact that the same portrait was there in the altar for a long time but that is not the reason for not to regularize it now, mistakes, whether it has done by an individual or it just happened because of lack of proper knowledge,should be corrected time to time. If it is a place for our worship then it should be according to our belief also...
but the real problem we are facing now a days is not the threat from out side it is right from our side, from our own church people." it is once again clarified by this issue. there are believers in this church to approach the district collector to keep that portrait again in the church altar..!!! what should we call them...??? it is a fact that the same portrait was there in the altar for a long time but that is not the reason for not to regularize it now, mistakes, whether it has done by an individual or it just happened because of lack of proper knowledge,should be corrected time to time. If it is a place for our worship then it should be according to our belief also...
