I don’t think you have to be a complete iconoclast to know when depicting God crosses the line. God’s commandments are clear—”you shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above” and “You shall not bow down to them.”
What a contradiction, though, when a church strips a man of most of his clothes and puts him on a cross while playing worship music and everyone in the crowd is worshiping.
But that’s precisely what First Baptist Orlando has done and it’s, well, quite a cringeworthy sight, to say the least.
Below is the clip (more photos, including gruesome close-ups of this available to paying subscribers).
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