Seriously, who can separate us from the Love of Lord. Who can separate us from his love ? Nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable-absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love. Romans 8:37-39. If we look back to the book of Isaiah 59 we see that the God tells us that he was kind and forgiving but we were covered in sin that much that we were alienated. But this is where the entire history of human beings were altered, one day as a young Jewish woman heard this voice, she accepted the call, and Jesus was born in to the world, not that he could not being God himself have put his foot down hard on the Earth, or he could have appeared grown, but chose to in the helpless form of man, more , in the helpless form of a baby, later after 30 plus years, took the responsibility of his creation, the sin of man, upon himself and to death it self, that the glory that you feel forgiven be not yours of a thing that you hope that God may forgive or wait for judgment on a day that he returns, no his forgiveness was given then, not only for the people who lived 2000 years ago, but also for the people 2000 plus years later, this is the love of God. This is what is said of his love,
God gave his son upon a cross to be a sacrifice, so that the sins of many be washed, and they shall look upon him who was raised and find their healing.
This could be my first ever critique of art that I have ever written and that is because it is only recently art has captured my interest as much as this work. This write up is made both in English and German as I want to practice my German. 'The Nativity' by Gari Melchers. I am not an art expert and my critique is from a layman's point of view, but bear with me. I have tried reading some information about the art and the culture behind it and I have my two favourite blog posts about the same work and yes, I have shamelessly copied some of their thoughts. Woebegone but Hopeful and other is by Lisa VO . Julius Garibaldi Melchers (August 11, 1860 – November 30, 1932) was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a 1932 Gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] - Wikipedia The Nativity is painted during the peak of realism movement - in a gritty and less idealised ma...
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