Jesus Cropped from the Picture

Jesus Cropped from the Picture

Figure 4: Black or White Background

Also, the picture in Figure 5 can appear to be either a young woman looking away, or an old woman in profile.

Figure 5: Two Women

These two simple examples illustrate how a message can be understood in radically different ways. Similarly, Americans changed the perspective from Christ being central to Self being central .

One striking illustration is the potential misunderstanding of Campus Crusade’s Four Spiritual Laws, 10 a presentation used by God to bring millions to faith in Christ in recent decades (see Figure 6). The individual (the circle) can be misconceived as the SUBJECT of the image because it is the largest part of the graphic (the main subject of

Figure 6: Individual or Christ?

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