A QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS TO PONDER UPON.....

Christians have you ever wondered why there are no pictures painted by the Apostles of Jesus?

They loved him so much why is there not a picture of him prior to this?

"No physical description of Jesus is contained in any of the canonical Gospels. During the persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire, Christian art was necessarily furtive and ambiguous, and there was hostility to idols in a group still with a large component of members with Jewish origins, surrounded by, and polemicising against, sophisticated pagan images of gods. Clement of Alexandria (d. 215) and Eusebius of Caesarea (d. ca. 339) disapproved of portrayals in images of Jesus and the issue remained the subject of some controversy until the end of the 4th century.[1]"

The earliest surviving Christian art comes from the late 2nd to early 4th centuries on the walls of tombs belonging, most likely, to wealthy [2] Christians in the catacombs of Rome, although from literary evidence there may well have been panel icons which, like almost all classical painting, have disappeared.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Have you ever pondered upon it?

Lotus