Although God helped me greatly with these, the law doesn't recognize God
as a legal entity to my knowledge, so all art assets are (C) me,
Nocturnal Iridescence, unless stated otherwise.
All wallpapers are released under [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0],
so share them anywhere you like, including any free-to-use wallpaper
sites. I can't make them for every single possible size out there, but I
hope these are good enough.
Today's text is from [John 8:7], NIV translation.
“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 'Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.' ”
A woman was caught cheating on her (boyfriend? husband?) and the teachers and pharisees brought this woman and said, "In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" This was supposed to be a trick question, where either answer (kill her or let her go) would get Jesus in trouble. Jesus avoided the trick, of course. And the woman, probably quite sure she was going to be killed -- Jesus let her go free instead, and just told her not to do it again.
Although the teachers and pharisees used this as a trick question for Jesus, it's also an illustration of His mercy. Jesus, the righteous son of God, would be justified in killing a sinner, but He does not do this. This is because Jesus loves us
This was originally going to look different, but God directed me to make it like this. It's color-coded according to the (pop culture) view of chakras. Chakras are not part of Christian theology, but they're depicted here to educate. The whole thing is meant to be psychedelic, "trippy", spiritual. The unholy people accusing Jesus are the lowest level, red / muladhara. Jesus, along with the swirls in the background that come down from heaven, are the highest level, pink and purple / Ajna and Sahasrara. Radiating out from them are other colors in between, going from high to low. The same happens with the cross over His heart. This isn't a good/evil dichotomy, but rather, it's about transcendence. The wicked accusers are stuck in a struggle with their base instinct, while the heavenly things are represented by the transcendent third eye and by the thousand-petaled lotus. Some of this radiates onto the cheating woman, who was forgiven by Christ and thus is in a purer state. Again, chakras/the third eye/etc are not part of Christian theology, but the moral and philosophical things they teach us are used here to illustrate God's word. People have a preconceived idea of God's word -- what it sounds like, what it feels like, how it manifests -- and those ideas are almost always wrong because they don't listen for God's voice, they just follow society which paints God as a boring, gray, totalitarian. Some people want a "boring gray totalitarian" in their life, and God could be that for them, if they want, but it is not the only thing God can be. He is transcendent. If you practice tantric meditation, take psychedelic drugs, follow eastern esotericism, or anything like that, you can still pray to God. He won't ignore you, and when He answers, it's not as an angry, stuffy parent, but as a living transcendent Spirit who is very knowledgeable on spirituality, and who loves you. The world wants to stone you to death, God wants to forgive you. Yes He knows your sins, He wants to forgive you anyway. He did this for the cheating woman in ancient Israel and He wants to do the same for you.
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