Wednesday, June 6, 2007

No visual representation of God

General indian tendency can confer divinity to any object or person or creture. Snake, elephant, Cow, Sun... all have been conferred with some kind of divinity. 4th chapter of Detueronomy completely denies the representation of God in any visual format.
This visual representation was denied until the Christ's Time. From Christ that is after his cricifixion this ideology started having a visual representation in form of 'cross' and 'christ'. Though the community started having new visual aspirations but the former ones were and are not yet completely deleted. Still Yaweh is faceless.
For Indian mentality the former ordinance of not representing God in any visual format is and has always been quite difficult to accept. 'Christ' and 'cross' was more convinient and inevitable choice for Indian mentality. I wonder if Yaweh really exists for Indian christians!