Jesus Sighted in UK!

A 52-year-old gentleman named Martin Gregory is the latest to spot Jesus in an unexpected place. In this case, Jesus was hiding in the roots of his asparagus fern.

Gregory says, "It looked so much like His face it took my breath away." He continued, "It has not made me religious. But it could be something supernatural linked to the abbey ruins opposite."

Father David Sherratt, of St Michael and All Angels Church, Abbey Wood Road, Abbey Wood, said: "I have often heard of people seeing things. God may want Mr Gregory to interpret what he saw in the plant as a sign."

Peek-a-boo!

A few other examples of these "sightings", from the article:

• 1978: Maria Rubio made a burnt tortilla, which resembled the mournful face of Jesus Christ. 8,000 curious pilgrims treked to her house in rural New Mexico to view the sacred icon.


• 1981: Christ appears, crucified on a garage door in California, caused by reflections from two street lights that had merged with shadows of a bush and a real-estate sign.


• 1987: Jesus appears on the chimney of a suburban bowling alley in Chicago. The four-foot image is formed from rusting metal.


• 1989: Thousands flocked to a home in north-east Harris County, Texas, to view a linoleum table top reflecting the image of Jesus.


• 1991: Jesus made national news as the centerpiece of a Pizza Hut billboard in Atlanta. The image of Jesus' face was found in strands of spaghetti hanging from a fork.

Yes, Jesus (and that Catholic Pagan "Queen of Heaven", Mary) has been sighted in many places. Are these acts of God? Acts of Satan? Or are they tricks of the human mind? What does God's Word tell us?

God tells us that we are not to make and/or worship any graven images.

Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

This is one of dozens of verses specifically condemning idolatry. What do you call it when people make pilgrimages to, say, a fern's rootball or a magic tortilla?

God has a particular punishment in mind for idolators. Paul tells us of it in Romans 1: 22-27.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 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.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Indeed, God turned the idolators into homosexuals! Why? That He might have further reason to condemn them to eternal Hellfire.

What, you ask, has all that to do with the fern rootball? Humans tend to recognize patterns in things they see, and project meaning onto them. It's a phenomenon called pareidolia. As David Hume noted,

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good- will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. --David Hume*

The mystical tortillas are not messages from God. There is nothing supernatural about a fern rootball that looks like Jesus, any more than a rutabaga that looks like Abraham Lincoln or a peanut that looks remarkably like Jimmy Carter. There is but one message from God, and it's the King James Bible!

Have you read it?

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