Colour separation
One source image is genuinely separated into five printing forms. Each can be viewed alone, and each is plainly incomplete by itself.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
To see the image of Christ whole
This site grew out of one thought: full-colour printing builds an image from four inks and a fifth laid over them, and the four Gospels and Acts build the image of Christ in just the same way. First so that He may be known. Then so that the same image may be imprinted on the heart.
Why a press and not a diagram
Theological emphases are usually discussed in words, and the argument quickly retreats into terminology. A press allows something else: it shows. Here one and the same source image passes through the settings, and the difference is visible — not as a verdict but as an impression. The ink either reached the sheet or it did not.
There is a less comfortable side to this. By the same method one can look not at someone else's church but at oneself: which ink has left me, which has flooded the rest, and what I have printed over Christ.
The passages it stands on
Colossians 1:15Christ is the image of the invisible God. The original, not a copy.John 20:31What is written is given so that we may believe and have life.Galatians 4:19“Until Christ is formed in you.”2 Corinthians 3:3A letter of Christ, written not with ink but with the Spirit — on tablets of the heart.2 Corinthians 3:18We are transformed into the same image from glory to glory.Ezekiel 36:26A heart of stone exchanged for a heart of flesh — material fit to print on.
How the site is laid out
The five inks
Every form has its own page: what that book reveals about Christ, the case for it from within the Gospel itself, and what happens when it runs short or heavy.
The press
Sliders change each ink's density, the registration and the overprint — and the sheet is recomposed at once. Any state can be built by hand.
The map of traditions
A tradition is not a different picture but a different press setting. The slider shows the original and what came off the press.
Phenomena
Phariseeism, Sadduceeism, Herodianism, the way of Esau, and the skews of proportion — with their signs and outcome. These are states, not church names.
The boundary
Shown separately: where a spoiled print ends and a forgery begins — where the deity of Christ is denied.
What this is not
This is not a ranking or a verdict. Ink density describes emphasis, not truth, and certainly not anyone's salvation. Behind every tradition stand living believers, and the differences inside a family are often greater than those between families.
The numbers in the settings are the author's judgement, and they are open to dispute. The only gauge here is Scripture: if a setting does not hold up against the text, it is the setting that has to change.
How to use it
Start with the separation — see how incomplete each ink is on its own. Then build your own church's state in the lab: what runs thin, what floods, what is printed on top. Only after that look at the map of traditions.
The most useful question at the end is not “whose church is worse” but “what impression comes off my own heart”.