Look at the picture above, and think about it! The young beautiful lady is polishing not the nails of Jesus’ hands, but the spikes which have been brutally driven into his two hands. What the painter has in her mind when painting it is rather difficult to find out.
Probably she intends to tell us that modern men should not any longer view the horrible death of Jesus by crucifixion as a divine merciful act to save human beings from the wrath of the avenging and blood-thirsty god, because Jesus himself is making fun of the spikes and his wounds and considers the spikes stabbed on his hands as additional accessories to be polished colourfully. By kidding his wounds and the spikes, Jesus perhaps ridicules his blood-thirsty Father in heaven!
What is the message of the second picture above? I think the painter is saying that if you and the pretty lady do not want to help Jesus polish the spikes already driven into his hands and insteps, and thus assisting him in ridiculing his victimization by god his Father in heaven, Jesus is ready to do it himself!
Thus the two pictures of Jesus presented here are a modern artistic rebellion against the soteriology of the cross which has been considered as an obsolete and superstitious view by modern men. Let us ridicule it! Let us make fun of it! Of course... if you are not an orthodox Christian!
Thus the two pictures of Jesus presented here are a modern artistic rebellion against the soteriology of the cross which has been considered as an obsolete and superstitious view by modern men. Let us ridicule it! Let us make fun of it! Of course... if you are not an orthodox Christian!
