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14k gold Christian jewelry

14k gold Christian jewelry has been used in jewelry to express peoples faith since the beginning of Christianity. Christian jewelry has pride of place as an excellent medium to express religious truths for many reasons.

When it is worn, it is highly visible and becomes a part of the person. In this way, Christian jewelry can become a personal witness and testimony that expresses who they are, what they believe, and the nature of their spiritual journey.

Most fine 14k gold Christian jewelry is set with gemstones. Precious metals and gemstones are beautiful, rare and possess great value. Because of this, the biblical and Christian traditions have used them as metaphor. God is beautiful, and His value is infinite. Precious metals like 14 kt gold and gemstones have been used to symbolize everything that is holy.

14k gold Christian jewelry becomes symbolic through its form. Two of the most common forms are: the cross and the fish. There are other forms that may not be exclusive to Christianity but have been adopted by Christians because they express spiritual beliefs. An example of this would be the vesica piscis. In recent times, some 14 kt gold Christian jewelry has expanded beyond these traditional forms to include more abstract forms of the dove or fire, both of which represent the Spirit of God. How modern jewelry design has become so high jacked by the more materialistic views of the human person is not for us to say, but there has not been enough jewelry design done that is beyond very simple forms, like the cross. The whole jewelry industry has been more or less in bondage to a view of the particular person. Now 14k gold jewelry is mainly used to glamorize the body and ego, in contrast to becoming an integral part of their reflections on divine experience.

Unlike other liturgical arts (music, art, architecture, poetry) 14k gold Christian jewelry design has not really expressed itself to its truest potential. We may be encouraged to see spiritual beliefs expressed in forms that may have been created without any spiritual intent whatsoever because spiritual mysteries are revealed in creation (Rom1:20).

Naturally the mind and soul can be refreshed through the eyes. Some people may even see meaningful Christian reality expressed in jewelry forms whether or not those forms were created with religious motives. Jewelry can be perceived as a Christian expression of divine realty when their is meaning attached to it in this way.

There are other people whose faith is of such an individualistic nature that Christian jewelry is most meaningful when they design it themselves (design your own).


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