God the Father Icons

God the Father icons are depictions of God the Father as an old man, often with the rest of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit as a dove. Icons are theology in colors. The errors and contradictions of theology within these types of icons are very clear. In the Seventh Ecumenical Council we learn that God the Father is invisible and not able to be depicted. Such icons do not conform to the Seventh Ecumenical Council. There are many places within Sacred Scripture which tells us so as well. In the Holy Gospel of John at 5:37 the Lord says that people have not seen the shape or form of the Father, we are not to invent such an idea on our own. Speaking further on this topic St. Theodore the Studite explains, “Since Christ was born of the indescribable Father, He (the Father) cannot have an image.” God the Father icons began to appear several centuries ago. Many supposed saints, like Nectarios of Aegina and John of San Francisco, worshipped with them. These icons have continued for some amount of time, with little to no concern. The famous iconographer of our times, Photius Kontoglu, made it until he learned of its error. The Orthodox Church of America (OCA) understands something about it but they contradict themselves. They cannot have it both ways. Sadly, if this was just some recent heresy that crept into modern minded psuedo-orthodoxy they might be able to make a good repentance of it. However, as it has be an intregral part of neo-orthodoxy since influenced by heretical Latin sacks of Constantinople so many centuries ago we can know that there will be no change in practice till the Second Coming.

Previously at the OCA official web site on this page

http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/q-and-a_old/images-of-god.html

they said, “Traditionally it is indeed incorrect to depict God the Father”

But then on the same site they show an icon that they called

the “Image of God the Father” at this page:

 http://www.oca.org/pages/ocaadmin/dioceses/AK/items/sitka.html

Below is that icon, I saved it for example:

 

This sadly misguides many today into further errors as the icon below shows.

 

 

previously from http://saints.oca.org/IconDirectory/lg/prelent/lastjudgement.jpg

 

Some people I have met have tried to tell me that since Mt. Athos makes the God the Father Icons, that as Athos is a bastion of Orthodoxy, keeping the faith intact, that there can be nothing wrong with them. I also have been told the western modern reasoning that it will bother the people who have paid for them to be in the churches, so we should not take it down. This is a theological error and I will not stand in worship with persistent theological error like this which has gone on and on for centuries. I will not stand with teachers who accept them. It is not possible to be more bare-headed or open with contrary theology than to have a erroneous icon in and with church. These icons of falsehood are all over Greece and throughout Russia. I have personally seen them in many places in America, nearly everywhere the Orthodox are.

 

 

from National Geographic Magazine April 1944 issue

 

Above we see a photo showing the west entry doorway to the main church of the famous Serbian monastery called Decani. It shows clearly here how it is that the influence of the Latin sack of Constantinople affected all the Orthodox Churches in union with them. The fact of what happened here is that the Serbians hired western Masons in the 14th century to do the work, this is what they get. Heresy. How sorrowful for the Serbians to be seen as the first example of this type of iconographical heresy. This is how the Serbians also adapted the Latin heretical form of the hand gestures for the sign of the cross and the clerical blessing. Below is a more recent color photo of their God the Father icon.

 

 

 

In case people might believe that Protestants are void of icon heresy, we see here one of the cartoons that Hal Lindsey promotes on his site. Lindsey is a famous Protestant who wrote the heretical best seller book The Late Great Planet Earth. Among the multitudes of Protestant heresies we can include God the Father images, as the photo above illustrates so well for us.

 

 

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