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Images of Jesus: In Granite and Cheese
By Ken Horn | January 19, 2008
A granite dealer in Florida is looking to make a financial killing on a slab of granite that he says bears the image of Jesus on the cross. Perhaps he’s thinking about the person who, in 2004, sold a grilled cheese sandwich on eBay that supposedly bore an image of the Virgin Mary … for $28,000.
Such things have been happening for centuries … often leading to pilgrimages by wishful people to see an image of Jesus, Mary or a saint, in a shadow, on a church wall, on a bread roll, or some such thing. On occasion, monuments have been raised on the sites, leading to people praying to departed saints rather than Jesus himself.
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV) says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
The joy of the believer is that Jesus lives inside him or her and His image is being formed there. We have no need to find His image in cheese or to pray to someone other than the Son of God.
Ken Horn
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