To Gaze and to Behold - by Charles Yang - Rough Drafts
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For just as those who look to the true godhead receive in themselves the unique features of the divine nature, so too, the one who devotes himself to the vanity of idols is transformed into that upon which he looks, becoming a stone instead of a human being. Gregory of Nyssa your young men shall see visions Joel 2:28 One common motif in the Bible is the idea of seeing rightly.1 For instance, the New Testament often uses the healing of physical blindness as a symbol for faith that gives us spiritual eyes to see. He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know,…
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