luminous nazarene

So I found this in an old high school physics book…

Lesson 1: Reflection and Its Importance
The Role of Light to Sight

The objects which we see can be placed into one of two categories: luminous objects and illuminated objects. Luminous objects are objects which generate their own light. Illuminated objects are objects which are capable of reflecting light to our eyes. The sun is an example of a luminous object, while the moon is an illuminated object. During the day, the nuclear reactions on the sun’s surface generate sufficient light to illuminate objects on Earth. The blue skies, the white clouds, the green grass, the colored leaves of fall, the neighbor’s house, and the car approaching the intersection are all seen as a result of light from the sun (the luminous object) reflecting off the illuminated objects and traveling to our eyes. Without the light from the luminous objects, these illuminated objects would not be seen. During the evening when the Earth has rotated to a position where the light from the sun can no longer reach our part of the Earth (due to its inability to bend around the spherical shape of the Earth), objects on Earth appear black (or at least so dark that we could say they are nearly black). In the absence of a porch light or a street light, the neighbor’s house can no longer be seen; the grass is no longer green, but rather black; the leaves on the trees are dark; and were it not for the headlights of the car, it would not be seen approaching the intersection. Without luminous objects generating light which propagates through space to illuminate non-luminous objects, those non-luminous objects cannot be seen.

Without light, there would be no sight.

None of us are light-generating objects. We are not brilliant objects (please take no offense) like the sun; rather, we are illuminated objects like the moon. We make our presence visibly known by reflecting light to the eyes of those who look our way. It is only by reflection that we, as well as most of the other objects in our physical world, can be seen. And if reflected light is so essential to sight, then the very nature of light reflection is a worthy topic of study among students of physics.

If you are a Christian and reading this I would assume you are thinking about yourself (illuminated) in comparison to Jesus (luminous)…and if you are a person who does not follow the ways of Jesus…I want to assure you that I did not find this information from a Christian Physics textbook.

I once read that Albert Einstein often referred to Jesus as Luminous Nazarene...

I quickly fell in love with this naming of Jesus.

And so with this physics description and Einstein and his portrait of Jesus illuminated in my head I came up with this photo…



The inscription on the cross reads...Luminous Nazarene in Greek.

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kyle diroberts