Posted on 06/22/2007 11:44:00 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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He ought to have studied the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea 787AD.
Iconoclasm is a heresy!
Iconoclasm appears in all heresies. It was a fundamental feature of Mohammed’s heretical syncretist cult.
Soldiers destroying church fittings at York Minster
The Huguenot pirates ranged up and down the coast of Spain, destroying all church art and statuary in the little unprotected village churches they found. Well, after stealing anything of value, that is. Same with the Brits.
Here’s a site about II Nicaea —>
Second Council of Nicaea - 787
Address:http://www.piar.hu/councils/ecum07.htm Changed:12:36 PM on Friday, June 22, 2007
Here’s the amazon dot com link —>
Amazon.com: The Truth about Images of Jesus and the 2nd Commandment: Books: Justin Griffin
Address:http://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Images-Jesus-Commandment/dp/1598865544/ref=sr_1_1/002-6522323-1604017?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182541939&sr=1-1
I may just order it to see how ridiculous it really is!
Compiling as many different angles of attack and arguments as he could, Griffin said the conclusion always came up the same – that the images many Protestant Evangelicals hold dear are sinful.
It would eliminate a lot of schmaltzy Christian kitch.
“How can images like that be sinful?” he said. “We have images of Jesus in the scriptures. They are painted for us by the words themselves.
Uhhh, no. Not the same at all.
You wrote:
“I may just order it to see how ridiculous it really is!”
If you do please tells what you discover about the book!
I conoclasm seem historically to have been a response to Islam. It seems not have had any currency before the 8th Century. But theologically it goes hand in hand with a denial of the Incarnation.
On better days, I could drop the name of that Flannery O’Connor story, without cheating by looking at the book.
“Parker’s Back”?
YES, thank you.
They should make this fellow read that story.
By the way, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the submerged item will shoot to the surface a moment after posting. This was the exception.
It's just like I always think of the perfect rejoinder 5 minutes after the conversation is over . . . .
Je ne parle pas français.
Ich spreche ein bißl Deutsch, paululum linguae Latinae, mikroteroV ellhnisti.
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