Icon "Spas Nerukotvornyi" wooden frame, double embossing, under glass, 11 x 13 cm

Icon "Spas Nerukotvornyi" wooden frame, double embossing, under glass, 11 x 13 cm.

• The Savior Not Made by Hands is the only icon that depicts Jesus simply as a person, a person with a face.
• The other iconic representations of Jesus show him performing an action or contain references to his attributes.
• Here he sits on a throne (so he is king), here he blesses, here he holds a book in his hand and points to the words written in it.
• The variety of images of Jesus is theologically correct, but it can obscure the basic truth of Christianity: Salvation comes through the person of Jesus, through Jesus as such, not through any of his individual actions or attributes.
• According to Christian doctrine, God sent us his Son as the only way to salvation.
• He himself is the beginning and the end of the way, the Alpha and the Omega.
• He saves us by the fact of his eternal presence in the world.
• We follow him, not out of duty, reason or habit, but because he calls us.
• We love him not for anything, but simply for who he is, that is, roughly as we love the not always explicable love of the elect or the chosen women of our heart.