Is classical art unbiblical?

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  • March 12, 2016 at 12:00 am
    Julyan
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    hi,

    came across some art pieces by James J Tissot on the life of Jesus and thought of using them for art study but a homeschooling mum commented that its unscriptural. Erm…can anyone help on this??

    March 12, 2016 at 6:15 am
    Melanie32
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    Hi Julyan! Maybe she was referring to the commandment that tells us not to create and worship idols?

    You will find well respected Christians on both sides of this fence. Some feel that using art to depict our Lord is perfectly acceptable if we are not worshipping those depictions. Others feel it is disrespectful to make such images when God gave us the word, not images. Some feel that art can help us to identify with and better understand Christ, whereas others feel that creating images might cause us to picture that image as Christ rather than just a depiction of what He may have looked like.

    It’s a controversial topic. 🙂

    March 12, 2016 at 9:23 am
    Karen
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    Hmmm.   Did the other mom tell you why?

    I’ve grown up in the conservative evangelical Christian tradition, and it seems there’s always a painting of Jesus in every church.

    Interesting.

    March 12, 2016 at 10:53 am
    Julyan
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    Hi,

    thanks for your perspective.

    I just thought of sharing the paintings which I found really beautiful. My little girl and I had a lovely conversation about the life of Jesus and talked about the coming Good Friday and touched on the whole idea of Easter Sunday and the whole bunny and egg thing which we learned is more of paganism rather than originating from Christianity.

    So I felt it was really insightful that my 3 YO felt touched and moved by the paintings. I shared the link to the paintings with the local homeschooling FB group where we are at.

    The mum commented that she would have used it to teach her kids how unscriptural classical art is.

    So I just got curious and wonder why. She did follow up with a verse from Isaiah 52:14.

    So I figured her perspective is that the paintings did not do justice to how marred Jesus was according to scripture.

    Thanks for sharing your Jews and thoughts though. I agree with Melanie32 that there will always be different camps of Christians holding different perspectives. No harm in that really as long as ultimately we all hold the same belief that Jesus did atone for our sins.

    Just as scholars debate over if it’s a Wednesday or Friday that Jesus died.

    At least I learned something!

    Thanks all!

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