Yeah, this is a good model. Given spacetime, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ is the central, pivotal Event, and all prior and subsequent events happen relative to This. And *That* is itself The Ultimate Icon of the relationship between the Created (circumference) and the Uncreated (Most Holy Trinity). Our entire calling as the Image of God is to represent all of this to the World - in whatever capacity He’s given to us. *** So given that our entire purpose is as Holy Icons, here’s wherein lies the “problem” that ARM is bumping into that he perceives as “making a bunch of excuses” and that I’ve described as “tacking *because* to everything.” An Icon is not a Photograph. What an Icon has, that a photograph loses, is a certain *representational essence* - by using simplified abstracted forms to represent a Saint, or a Holy Event, we are arriving at an Essence which is qualitatively different, somehow, than taking a photograph of it. They are images *of* the same Object; but the Icon has a merit of its own which is lost in a photograph. @ARM @CHIRO