If the disciples are praying, they are doing it wrong. Jews and early Christians did not do the 'joined hands' prayer gesture. They used instead the orans posture with raised hands:
Its hard being reverent with your hands in the air. It might make for shorter prayers if you had to keep your hands up the whole time though so that would be a plus.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
Chap- that way is too sacred. If you are endowed, then you can pray that way. This painting is depicting the less sacred way to protect the innocent.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
son of Ishmael wrote: ... Its hard being reverent with your hands in the air. ...
Umm ... well, I suppose Catholic priests just aren't reverent then:
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
zeezrom wrote:Chap- that way is too sacred. If you are endowed, then you can pray that way. This painting is depicting the less sacred way to protect the innocent.
OMG. So my posts will have to be moved to Telestial ...
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
