The old icon of Christ dated 10th century A.D. in Mt. Athos
Anonymous said...
Good day Fr. Abe,
May tanong din po ako, saan po ba galing yung mukha ni Jesus? pinicture out lang ba ito kasi napaka merciful ng hitsura?
September 12, 2010 8:02 PM
Fr. Abe, CRS said...
The first source of the image of the Lord Jesus is the personal description of the people who saw Him.
The Lord Jesus became Man and He was born in time. Thus, He has a physical body and was seen by many people especially the Apostles. Thus, His face was shared by description from one generation to another. Just like the image of Lapu-lapu. It passed on in our culture and history from one generation to the other. So that even though there was no video and cameras during those times we can easily identify Lapu lapu in our textbooks, in the monuments and in the paintings.
Second, the miraculous cloths bearing His image such as the Shroud of Turin and Veronica's Veil. Ancient history of the Church also speaks of the image of Christ brought by St. Jude Thaddeus to the King of Edessa. Thus, the images of St. Jude shows him carrying an image of the Lord.
Third, the ancient iconography and paintings of the early Christians. Foremost among these was St. Luke who was a doctor and also a painter. The ancient history of the Church speaks of St. Luke the Evangelist as the first to paint the face of the Lord and that of His Virgin Mother.
Fourth, the Lord Jesus appeared to other Catholic Saints in various points of history. And their testimony is in harmony with the ancient iconography.
September 12, 2010 8:14 PM
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Fr. Abe Magandang Araw po itatanong ko lang po di ba si Jesukristo ang Prinsipe ng Kapayapaan. Bakit po may nabasa akong verse sa Bible na Hindi kapayapaan ang dala nya kundi tabak? Naparito daw sya hindi para magdala ng Kapayapaan kundi magdala ng kaguluhan something ba yun.. Parang nagcontradict tuloy sa Prince of Peace/Ardent for Peace Pakitama na lang po ako Father matagal ko na po nabasa yan di ko napo matandaan ang chapter and verse. Thank you po in advance.
ReplyDeleteDear Bro. Swiss Guard,
ReplyDeleteJesus is the Prince of Peace. That is the title given to the Messiah and indeed, he lived and taught peace. He refused to be a military leader and didn't present himself as a revolutionary rebel like Judas Maccabeus. He died on the Cross like a Lamb led to a slaughter.
The meaning of 'I came not to give peace but war' is Spiritual and Moral. It refers to the struggle between Good and Evil. It tells us t reject what is evil and choose what is good. It tells us to prioritize God despite the temptations of this world. That in the struggle between Good and Evil we must not be afraid to oppose our own passions and lust, our own parents or siblings if they are not obedient to the Gospel values and not to be afraid to oppose even the governments of these world for the sake of Jesus. We must have to courage to bear witness to Jesus even if we loose everything even our own life - Martyrdom.
Thus, if our parents want to abandon the faith and join some other church we must have the courage to say No and stay with the Church. If the government approves Abortions, Same-Sex Union, Contraceptions and Euthanasia then we must have the moral fortitude to say NO.
Our Yes to God is a NO to Satan and his influences and his tempations and his seducations.
Thank you po uli Father.. Naguluhan po kasi ako sa statement e. God Bless po! Iingatan at ipagtatanggol ko po ang aking pananampalataya whatever it takes!! Thank you po uli!
ReplyDeletepaki post po ang pinost ni g.jeremy reyes tungkol sa larawan diumano ni kristo sa the last supper.
ReplyDeletethanks!
Maghintay. Marami pang ginagawa. Napaka babaw naman ng pinagsasabi ng Jeremy Reyes na yan. Yan din ang Jason Abalos na kung ano-anong kasinungalingan ang sinasabi sa mga Catholic Books na wala naman yung claim nya sa mga aklat na yon.
ReplyDeleteSINUNGALING. SABIHIN MO SA KANYA, HINDI PA NIYA TINATANGGAP ANG HAMON NA DEBATE NI ATTY. MARWIL.
NAKILALA KO LANG PO SIYA SA ISANG SITE HUMINGI NG FAVOR SAKIN NA SABIHIN SA INYO NA KUNG PWEDE AY IPOST NINYO PO ANG LAHAT NG PINOPOST NIYA,KASI DI RAW PO NINYO PINOPOST EH PINAGPUPUYATAN NYA DAW PO YUNG MGA AKLAT NA YUN NA ISALIN AT ITYPE SA PC TPOS IREREFUTE NIYO LANG DAW PO..ISA NA NGA PO DYAN YUN SINASABI NIYA TUNGKOL SA LAST SUPPER PO PAKI POST NALANG DAW PO..SALAMAT..
ReplyDeletePINAGPUYATAN PALA NIYA ANG MGA PANLOLOKO NIYA SA MGA AKLAT NA HINDI NAMAN NILALAMAN ANG KANYANG MGA PINAGSASABI.
ReplyDeleteKAYA NGA PARA MAGKA-ALAMAN NA E DI SABIHIN MO SA KANYA NA LUMABAN NA SIYA NG DEBATE NG HARAPAN. O BAKA NAMAN DUWAG NA ANG BUNTOT NIYA.
PAPANO KO PANINIWALAAN YAN E MINSAN JEREMY REYES, MINSAN JAYSON ABALOS... MALAY KO BA KUNG IISA KAYO. HE, HE, HE...
i think this site is a good place for debate...no need for personal appearance. we will look unto that sir.
ReplyDeleteThis article, Father, is somewhat deceptive. The Veronica veil is nothing but a myth. It has no basis in fact and in the Scriptures that it depicts the face of Jesus. The Shroud of Turin is a fake, the official report has implied that. Besides, how could the shroud became the basis of the pictures of Jesus when the picture in the Shroud was only discovered recently (when a photographer looked at the photo negative)?
ReplyDeleteJesus looked like a Palestinian peasant. That fact is borne by the fact that the authorities required Judas to identify him (i.e., he did not stand out in a crowd of peasants.) He should have looked dark (for staying out in fields) and looked rugged, not the effiminate guy in the photo. He should also look Middle Eastern, not the white, blue-eyed thin guy in the pictures, with delicate fingers.
[This article, Father, is somewhat deceptive.]
ReplyDeleteON THE CONTRARY, IT IS YOU WHO IS SOMEWHAT DECEPTIVE ATEO. HE, HE, HE...
[The Veronica veil is nothing but a myth.]
A MYTH? CAN YOU PROVE TO ME SCIENTIFICALLY THAT THERE WAS NO WOMAN NAMED VERONICA DURING THE TIME OF JESUS WHO WIPED HIS FACE WHEN HE FELL ON THE GROUND? CAN YOU PROVE THAT? DO YOU HAVE THE LIST OF ALL THE WOMEN IN JERUSALEM THAT TIME?
NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT SEEN A PARTICULAR WOMAN DOES NOT MEAN THAT THAT WOMAN DIDN'T EXIST. TRUTH AND REALITY DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR EYES AND IN YOUR PERCEPTION. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT.
[It has no basis in fact]
HAVE YOU ESTABLISHED THE FACT EXISTING THEN. WERE YOU THERE? ARE YOU AN EYE-WITNESS YOU CAN CLAIM THAT THE STORY DIDN'T HAPPEN AND THERE IS NO BASIS IN REALITY?
HOW CAN YOU CLAIM THAT THERE IS NO BASIS IN FACT WHEN YOU ARE IGNORANT OF THE FACT AND ARE NOT ONE OF THE EYE-WITNESSES.
[and in the Scriptures that it depicts the face of Jesus.]
HA, HA, HA... YOU ARE BECOMING HYPOCRITE HERE ATEO. IN OUR EARLIER EXCHANGES YOU REFERRED TO THE SCRIPTURES AS MYTH AS FAIRY TALE. NOW, YOU ARE USING IT AS A PROOF TO DENY VERONICA'S VEIL. HA, HA, HA...
[ The Shroud of Turin is a fake, the official report has implied that.]
ReplyDeleteHA, HA, HA... THE OFFICIAL REPORT HAS IMPLIED THAT BUT THEY ARE NOT AS ILLOGICAL AS YOU TO CONCLUDE THAT IT IS FAKE. IMPLICATIONS STATES ONLY OF THE POSSIBILITY BUT NOT A FULL DECLARATION OF BEING FAKE AS YOU ARE DOING.
YOU SEE, THE MEMBERS OF THE PANEL OF EXPERTS WERE ALSO CAREFUL NOT TO GIVE A DOWNRIGHT REJECTION LEST THEY BE PROVEN WRONG LATER.
ON OUR PART, SCIENTIFICALLY NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN THE EXISTENCE OF THE 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE IN THE SHROUD. HOW CAN A MATERIAL THAT IS VERY OLD AND SO LARGE CAN SERVE AS A LIVING FILM NEGATIVE.
SOME SUGGESTED THAT IT IS INVENTED BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, YET THEY COULD NOT PRESENT A SINGLE WORK OF LEONARDO WITH THE SAME QUALITY. OTHERS TRIED TO REPLICATE THE SHROUD BUT WHAT THEY PRODUCED IS TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND NOT THREE DIMENSIONAL LIKE THE ONE IN SHROUD.
BESIDES, THE LINEN CLOTH USED TO BURY JESUS AND THE SAME LINEN CLOTH LEFT AT THE TOMB AFTER THE LORD'S RESURRECTION IS ATTESTED BY THE SCRIPTURES. YET, YOU STILL REJECT IT DESPITE THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURES. ISN'T THAT HYPOCRISY? YOU PRETEND TO ACCEPT SOMETHING AS EVIDENCE FOR VERONICA'S VEIL YET REJECT IT AS EVIDENCE FOR THE SHROUD OF TURIN.
[Besides, how could the shroud became the basis of the pictures of Jesus when the picture in the Shroud was only discovered recently (when a photographer looked at the photo negative)?]
HA, HA, HA... YOU HAVE SHOWN YOUR HISTORICAL IGNORANCE HERE ATEO. THE SHROUD OF TURIN WAS FOUND TO BE BEARING THE IMAGE OF JESUS IN A FILM NEGATIVE MODE ONLY LAST CENTURY WHEN IT WAS TESTED BY CONTEMPORARY SCHOLARS. HOWEVER, HISTORICAL TESTIMONIES ON THE EXISTENCE OF SHROUD WERE CONSISTENT THAT THE SAME SHROUD PREVIOUSLY MANIFESTS THE FACE OF THE LORD. IT WAS VERY VISIBLE BEFORE. THAT IS WHY THAT PIECE OF CLOTH WAS FAMOUS EVEN BEFORE THE RISE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. IT WAS ALREADY CONSIDERED MIRACULOUS PRIOR TO MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY.
[Jesus looked like a Palestinian peasant.]
ReplyDeleteJESUS IS A GALILEAN CARPENTER.
[That fact is borne by the fact that the authorities required Judas to identify him (i.e., he did not stand out in a crowd of peasants.)]
HA, HA, HA... YOU ARE FREE TO HALLUCINATE ON THAT. THAT IS A MERE IMAGINATION OR RATHER OPINION IF YOU PREFER. HE, HE, HE... I THINK THE REASON WHY THEY NEEDED JUDAS ISCARIOT TO IDENTIFY JESUS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT MISTAKEN HIM FOR SOMEONE ELSE. IN SHORT... TO BE SURE. HE, HE, HE...
THE EMPLOYMENT OF JUDAS BY THE PHARISEES IS MORE ON THE NECESSITY OF HAVING AN INSIDER ON THE WHEREABOUTS AND ACTIVITIES OF JESUS. WITHOUT AN INSIDER IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE SOMEONE WHO HAS MANY SUPPORTERS, A POPULAR SPEAKER AND FREQUENTLY SURROUNDED BY AT LEAST 12 CAPABLE MEN.
PEASANT-LOOKING OR NOT, A SPY WAS NECESSARY. THE CLOSER THE SPY THE BETTER. HA, HA, HA... PLEASE READ SOME OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, AGATHA CHRISTIE, P.D. JAMES AND UMBERTO ECO. HA, HA, HA... YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF INVESTIGATIVE SCIENCE IS VERY POOR.
[He should have looked dark (for staying out in fields) and looked rugged,]
JESUS IS A JEW AND JEWS ALMOST LIKE THE CAUCASIANS ARE STILL WHITE IN COMPLEXION IN COMPARISON WITH THE MALAY RACE DESPITE THEIR TANNED-SKIN.
BESIDES, YOU ARE BECOMING UNREALISTIC AND ILLOGICAL HERE, ATEO. WHO TOLD YOU THAT IN PAINTING THE PAINTER IS NECESSITATED TO CAPTURE EXACTLY THE TEXTURE OF THE ONE BEING DEPICTED? SOME ARTISTS CAN ALMOST IMITATE THE SKIN TEXTURE OF THE SUBJECT BUT MANY ARE NOT GIFTED BY SUCH TALENTS. NOT ALL ARTISTS ARE GENIUSES IN THE ARTS. AND, IT IS VERY LIKELY TO ATTAIN THAT IF THEY ARE DOING A PORTRAIT WITH THE ACTUAL PERSON PRESENT AS A MODEL. THAT DEMAND IS NOT VALID IF THE ARTISTS ARE NOT MAKING A PORTRAIT.
AS REGARDS, LOOKING RUGGED AND DARK. THERE ARE A LOT OF IMAGES OF JESUS LOOKING RUGGED AND DARK. BUT, YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN A BASIC 'ELEMENTARY FACT'. JESUS WAS TORTURED AND WAS LACKING OF FOOD AND DEHYDRATED WHEN HE DIED. HE LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT THEN DUE TO LOST OF SO MUCH BLOOD AND WATER IN HIS BODY. SO, THE RISEN LORD WHO ROSE FROM THE DEAD IS NOT A PICTURE OF A ROBUST MAN BUT OF A SLENDER, NEWLY TORTURED MAN. AND HE IS NOT DARK WHY? BECAUSE THE GLORY OF THE RESURRECTION WAS ON HIM. HE IS THEN SEEN BY HIS FOLLOWERS AS A LIGHT SHINING IN THE DARKNESS.
YOUR FAILURE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BASIC ELEMENTARY FACTS IS FATAL FOR YOU. JESUS IS NOT ALWAYS DEPICTED IN OUR SACRED IMAGES AS THE MACHO CARPENTER, HE IS ALSO DEPICTED AS A WOUNDED MAN, TORTURED MAN WHO HAS RISEN FROM THE TOMB. HE IS THEN VERY THIN, WOUNDED AND FRAIL LOOKING BUT EXUDING WITH GLORY OF SOMEONE WHO HAS TRIUMPHED OVER DEATH.
[not the effiminate guy in the photo.]
ReplyDeleteOUR IMAGES OF JESUS ARE NOT SHOWING AN EFFEMINATE CHRIST. BUT A CHRIST WHO HAS SUFFERED MUCH, HE WAS SHOWING A TORTURED AND WEAK BODY, BUT GLORIOUS IN SPIRIT.
YOU FAILED TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EFFEMINACY AND OUR MANNER ARTISTIC MANNER OF DEPICTING THE RISEN ONE WHO IS AS GENTLE AS A LAMB.
[He should also look Middle Eastern, not the white, blue-eyed thin guy in the pictures, with delicate fingers.]
THE JEWS ARE ALMOST LIKE THE AMERICANS AND THE EUROPEANS. JESUS IS NOT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. THE MIDDLE EASTERNERS ARE THE ARABS. JESUS IS NOT A PALESTINIAN ARAB BUT A PURE-BLOODED JEW. HIS LOOK IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WEST.
CONCERNING THE FINGERS. THE DEPICTION OF THE FINGERS OF THE LORD IN OUR ICONOGRAPHY AND IN OUR PAINTINGS ARE MADE SUCH BECAUSE OF THEOLOGICAL REASONS. ARTS ARE MADE WITH IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHY AS WELL IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THAT. THE LORD'S FINGERS DENOTES THE WEAKNESSES OF THE FLESH IN CONTRAST WITH HIS STRENGTH IN SPIRIT. THE HANDS OF THE LORD SUFFERED THE CRUELEST TORTURES. IT IS BUT PROPER TO DEPICT THEM AS THINNED RATHER THAN THE COMMONLY ROBUST. THOSE HANDS ARE COMMONLY SHOWN AS POINTING TO HEAVEN WHICH MEANS REMINDING PEOPLE THAT THERE IS GOD IN HEAVEN AND THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH. MOST OF THE TIME THEY CONVEY BLESSINGS AND BLESSINGS ARE PROJECTED BY A GENTLE, LOVING HAND, NOT BY A ROBUST POWERFUL HAND.
IN SHORT ATEO, YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR CATHOLIC ARTS IS SHALLOW AND SUPERFICIAL.
FINALLY, IF YOU WILL READ AGAIN THE POST ABOVE ON THE SACRED IMAGES OF CHRIST OUR DEFENSE OF THE DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST IS NOT PRIMARILY DEPENDENT ON SHROUD AND VERONICA'S VEIL BUT ON THE LIVING TESTIMONY OF COUNTLESS PEOPLE WHO SAW HIM, LIVED WITH HIM AND LOVED HIM DURING HIS STAY HERE ON EARTH.
Fr. abe pwd po magtnong
ReplyDeletefr. santo collector po kasi ako may nakapagsbi po sa akin na imbis na magipon ako para sa mga imahen ko eh gamitin ko n lng daw sa tamang pamamaraan at ipamahagi sa kapwa... anu po masasabi niyo diyan?
eto pa po fr : ang sabi po ng mga prots bakit daw tayo mga katoliko ang laki laki daw ng pagpapahalaga natin sa mga imahen tulad n lamang ng binibihsan natin ito pinagkakagasutsan binibili kahit mamahalin,tska pinuputungan pa ng koronang ginto at nilalagyan pa ng mga alahas at pinuprusisyon pa.
sabi nila wla daw sa Bibliya ito kaya daw tlga po na sumasmaba tayo sa mga rebulto kasi si imahen daw naten tinutoon ang atensyon naten tpos po kahit po milyon pagkakagastusan natin para lang mapaganda ang mga rebulto
pero para sa akin ndi ko naman po sinasmba un mga rebulto ko s bhay (collection) pero sabi po ng prots bawal daw ako magdsal sa harap ng mga imahe kasi pagsmba daw po iyon.Fr panu ko po masasagot ito sa mga anti-catholic na tumutuligsa?
[Fr. abe pwd po magtnong]
ReplyDeleteSURE. PASENSIYA KA NA I ALREADY RECEIVED THIS QUESTION FEW DAYS BEFORE KASO MY TIME WAS OCCUPIED BY THE MANOLISTAS. HE HE HE...
[fr. santo collector po kasi ako may nakapagsbi po sa akin na imbis na magipon ako para sa mga imahen ko eh gamitin ko n lng daw sa tamang pamamaraan at ipamahagi sa kapwa... anu po masasabi niyo diyan?]
PARA SILANG SI JUDAS. KUNWARI CONCERN ABOUT THE POOR PERO ANG TUTUO GUSTO KA NILANG MAG BORN AGAIN PARA MAHUTHOT NILA ANG IYONG IKAPU. MGA JUDAS ANG MGA BORN AGAIN NA IYAN.
AS A CATHOLIC PRIEST I ALSO ADVICE YOU NOT TO FORGET SHARING YOUR BLESSINGS TO THE POOR BUT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH COLLECTING SACRED IMAGES. YUNG IBA THEY ARE COLLECTING ORCHIDS, SPECIAL DOGS AND PUPPIES OR CATS, OR HORSES OR EXPENSIVE CLOTHES OR JEWELRIES. DO THINGS WITH MODERATION AND DO NOT EXAGGERATE THINGS IN COLLECTING. MAKE IT SURE NA YOU ARE NOT DEPRIVING YOUR FAMILY OF FOOD AND NECESSITIES.
[eto pa po fr : ang sabi po ng mga prots bakit daw tayo mga katoliko ang laki laki daw ng pagpapahalaga natin sa mga imahen tulad n lamang ng binibihsan natin ito pinagkakagasutsan binibili kahit mamahalin,tska pinuputungan pa ng koronang ginto at nilalagyan pa ng mga alahas at pinuprusisyon pa.]
ReplyDeleteYAN NAMAN ANG UTOS NG DIOS. NA GAMITAN NG GINTO ANG MGA LARAWAN SA KANYANG SANCTUARIO AT ALTAR HANGGANG SA DAKONG KABANALBANALAN NG TEMPLO AT MEETING TENT:
Exodus 25:17-22 At gagawa ka ng isang luklukan ng awa, na taganas na ginto: na may dalawang siko't kalahati ang haba niyaon, at may isang siko't kalahati ang luwang niyaon. At gagawa ka ng dalawang querubing ginto; na yari sa pamukpok iyong gagawin, sa dalawang dulo ng luklukan ng awa. At gawin mo ang isang querubin sa isang dulo, at ang isang querubin sa kabilang dulo: kaputol ng luklukan ng awa, gagawin mo ang mga querubin sa dalawang dulo niyaon. At ibubuka ng mga querubin ang kanilang pakpak na paitaas, na nilililiman ang luklukan ng awa, ng kanilang mga pakpak, na ang kanilang mukha ay nagkakaharap, sa dakong luklukan ng awa ihaharap ang mga mukha ng mga querubin. At iyong ilalagay ang luklukan ng awa sa ibabaw ng kaban; at sa loob ng kaban, ay iyong ilalagay ang mga kinalalagdaan ng patotoo, na aking ibibigay sa iyo. At diya'y makikipagkita ako sa iyo, at makikipanayam sa iyo mula sa ibabaw ng luklukan ng awa, sa gitna ng dalawang querubin na nangasa ibabaw ng kaban ng patotoo, tungkol sa lahat ng mga bagay na ibibigay ko sa iyong utos sa mga anak ni Israel.
ANG MISMONG ARK OF THE COVENANT NG DIOS AY MAY MGA ESTATWANG GINTO. AT DIOS MISMO ANG NAGPAGAWA. ITO PA:
1 Hari 6:23 [Mabuting Balita Biblia] "Sa loob ng Dakong Kabanalbanalan, nagpalagay siya ng dalawang kerubin, IMAHENG NILILOK SA KAHOY na Olibo...
1 Hari 6:28 "Balot din ng GINTONG LANTAY ang dalawang kerubin."
ITO PA:
1 Hari 6:29 "Ang BUONG DINGDING NG TEMPLO, maging sa Dakong Kabanal-banalan, maging sa Dakong Banal ay may UKIT NA MGA KERUBIN, PUNONG PALMA AT MGA BULAKLAK. Ang sahig ng templo buhat sa dakong kabanal-banalan hanggang sa Dakong Banal ay may latag na GINTONG LANTAY."
NGAYON NILA SABIHIN SA ATIN NA BAWAL ANG MGA LARAWANG BINALOT NG GINTO O INUKIT O NILILOK. MGA SINUNGALING ANG MGA BORN AGAIN NA IYAN.
ITO NAMAN ANG TUNGKOL SA PROCESSIONS:
ReplyDeletePsalm 68:24-27 [English Standard Version] Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary-- the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines: "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!" There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
SEE, MAY PROSISYON ANG DIOS NA NAGTATAPOS SA SANCTUARY OF THE TEMPLE. MAY MGA MANUNUGTOG AT ANG MGA TAO AY MASAYA KASAMA ANG KANILANG MGA LIDER HABANG NASA PROCESSIONS.
ANO ANG PRINOSISYON NA IYAN? ANG ARK OF THE COVENANT! READ THIS:
1 Kings 8:1-6 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
IYAN AY MALINAW NA PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF GOD AS DECLARED IN NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION AND ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION AS WELL AS NEW REVISED STANDARD BIBLE:
Psalm 42:4 "These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival."
ANG PROCESSION OF GOD AY ISASAGAWA BILANG KAPISTAHAN O FESTIVAL. MASAYA AT MAY TUGTUGAN AT AWITAN. THEN ANG ENDING SA HOUSE OF GOD OR TEMPLE. THEN ANG DINADALA AY ANG ARK OF THE COVENANT NA GAWANG INANYUAN NA YARI SA KAHOY NA BINALOT NG GINTO.
BAKIT HINDI NILA ALAM YAN? DAHIL TINATAGO NG MGA PASTOR PARA MAKAPANLOKO SILA NG MGA TAO.
[sabi nila wla daw sa Bibliya ito kaya daw tlga po na sumasmaba tayo sa mga rebulto]
TANGA LANG SILA AT NAGBUBULAG BULAGAN. HINDI SINUSURI NG MABUTI ANG BIBLIA.
[kasi si imahen daw naten tinutoon ang atensyon naten tpos po kahit po milyon pagkakagastusan natin para lang mapaganda ang mga rebulto]
TALAGANG ANG DIOS NAMAN ANG NAG-UTOS NA PAGANDAHIN AT IBIGAY ANG THE BEST PARA SA TEMPLO NIYA AT PARA SA MGA GAWANG INANYUAN SA SANCTUARIO AT SA MGA ALTAR. ANG HIRAP SA MGA BORN AGAIN MAS DIOS PA SILA KESA SA DIOS. NAGMAMAGALING KAYA NGA DEMONIO ANG URI NG PAG-IISIP NILA, HINDI MAKA DIOS AT ANTI-BIBLE.
[pero para sa akin ndi ko naman po sinasmba un mga rebulto ko s bhay (collection)]
SIEMPRE. TALAGANG HINDI NATIN SINASAMBA ANG MGA IYON. ANG MGA BORN AGAIN NAKAHARAP SA PASTOR NILA PAG SUMASAMBA KAYA ANG PASTOR NILA ANG DEMONIONG DIOS-DIOSAN NILA.
[pero sabi po ng prots bawal daw ako magdsal sa harap ng mga imahe kasi pagsmba daw po iyon.]
BALIW IYON AT SINUNGALING. DAHIL ANG MGA TAO SUMASAMBA SA TEMPLO AT DUON NAGDADASAL MAGING SI JESUS AT ANG MGA APOSTOLES. ANG TEMPLO NG DIOS AY PUNO NG MGA LARAWAN MAGING SA DAKONG KABANAL BANALAN O SA MGA DINGDING NITO.
[Fr panu ko po masasagot ito sa mga anti-catholic na tumutuligsa?]
IYAN ANG IPANSAGOT MO. SABIHIN MO SABI KO MGA KAMPON SILA NG DEMONIO AT MGA MANGMANG SA BIBLIA.