The NAP of silent icons

[JohnD]

On 2/10/2020 at 2:33 PM, frienduff thaylorde said:

I know what it means .    DONT TRUST ROME or any protestant leader in unity with IT .   who does its work and focuses on inclusive unity .       Thanks for asking .  

Very well said indeed.

[ahmedcrow]

2 hours ago, maryjayne said:

Icons don't talk. They are representations, stylised pictures of saints or Bible events. They originally come from an era before people were able to read scripture for themselves. That is all they are.

Painting is an expressing for the religious Christian artist thoughts, they talked to world like that.

[ahmedcrow]

2 hours ago, maryjayne said:

I have already given you the link to the information about the icon.

What else are you looking for?

Thank you for this link https://calendarulortodox.ro/sfinti/sfintii-trei-ierarhi/

It's written in Romanian and I translated it. It talks about the characters of those great 3 Saints, not the icon itself.

[ahmedcrow]

19 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

What do you want to know about the icon itself other than it is a picture of three saints?

If it's just three saints, so that artist was a photographer but in old ways, for the photographer didn't care more than making a copy of someone in a picture.

[ahmedcrow]

46 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

Icons are just pictures of religious people or events. 

What did you think an icon was?

"Icons are just pictures of religious people or events. ". It's like what someone said about Gospel that it's just a book, and what Jesus did is just a story. If you said "no, Gospel is the word of God", I tell you that icon is a kind of art. In art we don't say "it's just an icon".

[ahmedcrow]

5 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

what do you say an icon is and what does it represent?

I can google it and see what dose it mean literally in English, but what I meant is that kind of Christian images that have religious or spiritual contents. Understand for this topic only that icon is just a Christian image that have a spiritual thought and have been made in particular way like a statue. Your questions mean that icons are just normal works that have no more over that. Normal art works have the artist thoughts about a subject he decided in his paint, so what about spiritual art like Christian icons?!

[ahmedcrow]

11 hours ago, maryjayne said:

what is the spiritual thought you think that icons have? They are not idols to be worshiped. They are reminders of saintly people and are there to help people focus on the good things those saints did in their lives.

Spiritual thoughts or values don't belong to fetishism, if Christianity isn't spiritual religion, it would be worldly and doesn't belong to heaven anymore. These icons give spiritual knowledge for those are given the gift to read 'em like those are given the gift to paint 'em.