Damar Hamlin Wears Super Gross, Blasphemous Jacket to the Superbowl
Last month Damar Hamlin, a professional football player for the Buffalo Bills, went into cardiac arrest in the middle of a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Emergency personnel performed CPR and revived him on the field and he was transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he eventually recovered.
It was a life-changing moment for the professing Christian, who would later say that it was all part of God’s plans for him and that God desired him to live.
What is likely NOT God’s desire for him, however, is the super gross jacket he wore to the Superbowl LVII, which features a grotesque crucified flannelgraph Jesus on the back of his coat and a garish representation of his face on the front. The words “Eternal” and “Without end or beginning, there is no day and there is no night” are scrawled across both sides.
It’s a disgusting violation of the second commandment, and appears to be a bizzare mockery of the death of Christ, or at the very least, a callous and dsirespectful swipe at the King of Glory.
This is shameful, shameful behavior towards the one who saved his life. Whether it’s intentional or not, This is fit to be burned.
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Good grief…
From the looks of it, I think the drawing possibly could have been done by a well-meaning child relative of his, and he simply custom-designed his jacket out of respect for said child and as a positive religious gesture.
But yes, religious iconography of all types is a problem.
The second commandment is clear: Don’t make a graven image of *anything* which you then bow down and serve. If no one was bowing down and serving this jacket, then it was not a “disgusting violation of the second commandment”. What is a disgusting violation of the “last commandment” (the one at the end of Revelation) is adding words to the second commandment so that you make it say you can’t make a picture of Jesus. That’s not at all what the second commandment says. You have to add words to make it say that. It’s a Pharisaical hedging of the law, and it’s disgraceful.
Would you spit on that image? Would you cut it to shreds and toss it in the trash?
No? Oh, so then there is a bit of reverence toward it, huh?
I wouldn’t spit on someone else’s property. I would absolutely throw that in the trash if someone gave it as a gift to me or one of my children.
Follow up question: would you spit on the cross mounted in the front of your church?
Crosses are Roman Catholic superstitious devices that the Reformed rejected centuries ago. We have no crosses on or in our meeting building. We have no crosses in our homes. God never authorized any symbols for us other than bread, wine and water.
Well at least you’re consistent. I’ll give you that. A lot of people condemn pictures of Jesus, but love their crosses.
You’re wrong. By your reasoning of the 2nd commandment the only thing the Israelites did wrong in the wilderness was to bow down to the golden calf, which represented God, not the actual making of a representation of God. The main problems with images of any of the three persons of the Trinity is that it ALWAYS misrepresents the infinite and holy God in some finite way. God specifically tells the Israelites that they saw no similitude of Him. Making any kind of images of God is pagan nonsense and blasphemist. But such are so called protestants that have been given over to Romanish ways. As one of my elders said, you’re either on the road to the next reformation or your on your way back to Rome.
I’m “wrong” but you have no Scriptural defense of your position? The Israelites literally disobeyed the actual wording of the second commandment, and you think that’s not good enough? Let’s review: they made an image and bowed down to it and worshipped it. Classic second commandment breakage.
Here’s my point: if you are adding a few words to the second commandment to fit your treasured belief that it’s *really* about trying to make pictures of God, and that the bowing and the serving is just tangential, then you are perverting the Word of God for your own Pharisaical man-made law.
No scriptural proof? Really Here, read carefully.
Exodus 20:4-5 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Notice Corey the two separate clauses. The two “thou shalt not”. No. 1 Don’t make make images of God. No.2 Don’t worship them. It’s not hard to understand.
Here, another scriptural proof. Deuteronomy 4:15-16
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Again, you argue that the only real sin the Israelites committed was actually bowing down to the calf, not actually making the calf. Making golden calves is what the Israelites learned from the Egyptians. Reading in Exodus 32:7-8 you will find that God tells Moses that the people have corrupted themselves by making and worshipping the calf…both acts were sin.
Exodus 32:7-8 7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Do you seriously believe that representing God with a golden calves is somehow ok with God?
The faithful Jews were carefully to not make images of God, no description is EVER given of Christ. Images of Christ didn’t appear until the Apostles had all died.
Pagans love to make images of their gods and goddesses…enjoy your trip back to Rome.
You quote Exodus 20 and then add two words in your explanation: “of God”. Those words are not in the commandment. You are adding to the Word of God to defend your doctrine of men.
And you cited Deuteronomy 4, but neglected to include verse 19. That’s where the “bowing down and worshipping” turns the action of making images into sin. Otherwise, making a picture of the any of those things – like the sun (or a cherub, which God commands Israel to make) – would be evil in and of itself. It clearly isn’t. The bowing and worshipping makes it sinful.
I’m not disagreeing with you that we shouldn’t try to make a picture of the invisible God. I’m just holding out the plain reading of the Scriptures which makes the worshipping *of any image* a sin. You speak about Roman Catholic perversions, but the plain reading of the text is actually harder on the Roman Catholic because they bow down to images that they *don’t* think of as God (like Mary or other ‘saints’). If the second commandment is intended as you say, then their practice is fine.
Also, the New Testament absolutely describes Jesus: Revelation 1:12-16. You can’t read that passage without it conjuring an image in your mind. It was meant to.
It could be an artistic/literal rendering of Isaiah 53?
Why were you, or any other professing Christian and or conservative watching the “super” bowl in the first place? The NFL is an anti-Christian, anti-American pro-BLM, pro-lgbhtxyz disgrace. There may be some great guys who play pro football, but the league itself is beyond contempt. It is hypocritical to the extreme to say you’re conservative and still watch and support that garbage.
Sorry, we are conservative and enjoy watching professional football (and baseball, hockey, etc.).
Why are you watching commercials for any number of companies that support sinful organizations? The answer is that unfortunately in this society today, the godless vastly outnumber the faithful, and avoiding anything tainted with sin is absolutely impossible, save for living in a cave, cut off from the world.
I understand and appreciate your message but watching a sport does not mean one supports or agrees with viewpoints held by that sport’s management, brother.
Typical Baptists…It’s the Lord’s 2 hours not the Lord’s DAY. Nothing shall interfere with the holy sacrament of Football watching on Sunday or going to restaurants after “church”. The 4th commandment bites the dust, it was only for the Jews…yada, yada, yada. And no, I don’t keep the commandment perfectly, if only I could.
this is for Corey. Again you err. the context of the first commandments is God. The first part of the 2nd is dont make images of God. God is the subject of the commandment. saying my arguement now relates to sun is a red herring. context is everything. your arguement about me adding to the scriptures is akin to saying that use of the term “trinity” to describe the nature of God is adding to the scriptures, more nonsense on your part. as for the description of Jesus in Revelation, it is highly figurative, not literal. John is describing something he saw in a vision. I can only conclude you think its perfectly ok to make golden calves to represent God. in your world as long as you bow down to it, your good. evangelicalism is truly a wasteland.
Romans 1:22-23 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.