Religious icons have their own special language

Religious Icons are windows to the world spiritual insight. Thus icon has its own special language, in which each symbol is a symbol, which is itself have expressed this more meaning. Icons through their own system of symbols to convey information, just as the use of letter writing to convey the same information, regardless of the language icon (color, lines, etc.) or written language, are assumed symbology. But the language of the modern world icon than written language (such as foreign language) more difficult to grasp, largely because, first of all, by the modern education in ordinary people have been far beyond the traditional Christian context,Natural evolutionary worldview is very different with the Bible on God's creation. Secondly, the modern aesthetic of painting and artistic beauty of understanding by the West since the Renaissance strongly influence happiness naturalism and realism, formed a fixed set of aesthetic style. The icon is the image of an unnatural asceticism. Icon deliberately not bring natural pleasure, always strive to show icons unnatural thing, not this world of things, is the revelation of "new heavens and a new earth," a new creation.
But language is only symbolic icons and symbols, we can see the icon in the direct image does it is to visually depict the heavenly objects. Some people say that if the sky as an icon in the world on the way depicted, how disappointing ah. This understanding is a misunderstanding of icons, as he unconsciously from their own naturalistic aesthetic to look at the icon-set look.
Symbol, symbolism, allegory, which is a common approach "Bible" express revelation of truth. The prophet Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Joseph are spoken fable, like Jesus Christ used parables when preaching, with vines, figs, yeast and other real-life physical analogy to tell profound truth. "The Bible" is the source icon symbol method.

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