The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Images of Christ Poll

I voted in the poll because I wanted to see the responses, but there really wasn't one that "fit" me. I clicked "I never see an image of anything in my mind" because that is probably the closest, but that isn't entirely true. Never is a big word. When I was a child I remember seeing images of Jesus. He looked to me like all the Sunday school pictures and movies I had ever seen.

I've had occasion to think about this recently and I realize that now I don't think of that unless it's during this kind of discussion. Sometimes when I am reading the Gospel accounts of His life on earth, I get a shadowy sense of the action of the Man, for example when he raised Jairus' daughter or when He called Lazarus. But there's not a lot of detail other than what the mind fills in as a necessity. I get a much stronger picture in my mind about how the other people in the gospel narratives looked and how they acted.

I sense a kind of prohibition in my mind even now when I am trying to describe what I "see" and how I "see" it.

I can't really describe it to another person but I can tell you that I am satisfied and content with it. (I say "it" because I don't even know how to describe "it".)

Let me try this: Christ is real to me. His presence is more real to me than any image I can create in my mind. When I read of Him in the Bible something resonates in my Spirit in a way that it never can in my mind.

That's probably more than you wanted to know, but as I said, I have had reason to think about this recently so it is fresh in my mind.