To: GreyFriar
What is it about the Commandment prohibiting graven images you not understand?
13 posted on
05/30/2018 5:23:52 PM PDT by
sparklite2
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To: sparklite2; GreyFriar
The Lord said not to have graven images "to worship them", that is, it is prohibited to give divine honor to any created thing.
These days, I'm pretty sure people are more likely to make idols of money, pleasure, and power.
Anyhow, as long as you don't worship the figures in --- for instance ---your Nativity set, you're not committing idolatry.
Statue of the first pastor of the First Baptist Church in Amherst, Nova Scotia
22 posted on
05/30/2018 5:39:30 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(In Donegal, I still have 700,000 who have not bent the knee to Baal.)
To: sparklite2; GreyFriar
Oops, I forgot. I mentioned Nativity scenes. Here you go, life-size, and at a Baptist church:
I like it.
It would never occur to me that, oh my goodness, their statues are worshiping statues!!
25 posted on
05/30/2018 5:45:21 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(In Donegal, I still have 700,000 who have not bent the knee to Baal.)
To: sparklite2
What is it about the new covenant that you don’t understand?
32 posted on
05/30/2018 5:59:40 PM PDT by
Romulus
To: sparklite2
Considering that the OT is full of instances of graven images and statues commanded by God Himself, I think it’s rather obvious that the prohibition on graven images is related to worship and not simply a ban on pictures and statues.
37 posted on
05/30/2018 6:06:30 PM PDT by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
To: sparklite2
John of Damascus, “On the Divine Images”
44 posted on
05/30/2018 6:26:45 PM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
To: sparklite2; GreyFriar
Well, here you go:
a carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
We, as Baptists(me) or Catholics (not me) do not worship the carvings, engravings or statuary.
They are symbols or reminders of our faith and that is all.
The same with statuary , carvings , paintings, etc.
They are reminders of passages of the bible.
79 posted on
05/30/2018 8:01:44 PM PDT by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
To: sparklite2
What is it about the Commandment prohibiting graven images you not understand? A statue of Jesus is a graven image akin to a statue of Ba'al? Who knew?
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