Oh, no kidding Dave? I had absolutely no Idea. LOL. I mean I'm just a mere artist here, and art isn't *just* an ability to draw, sculpt or create. Art requires in the nature of the person: perception, feeling and understanding.
I was merely paraphrasing what I thought was your interpretation of the 2nd Commandment.
How do you do your art? What is an acceptable subject?
I usually do my art sitting down - it's more relaxing that way. As for subjects - Get your own ideas.
Excuse me for asking. I know I'm not the only one here who would like you to just put down your holy hat and try to clarify some of the stuff you said earlier. You seemed to be saying that the 2nd Commandment forbids the construction of any image of anything on earth under the seas or in the Heavens. And you yourself said you stopped doing portraits. I'm sorry I even asked what you do do art about. You could forget we are mortal enemies and just answer. Don't most artists like to talk about their work?
SD
Tongue in cheek sarcasm doesn't seem to agree with you today. Ya'll think that bowing and praying to a statue is no big deal because one is really routing that to the person the statue represents. Do you not understand that is precisely what Idols are used for, to get to that which the idol represents? I state the commandment against creating idols, and point to the laws against communing with the dead and you guys want to make the issue about anything but the truth. If the word said "don't pick up a petros and throw it at anyone" You'd make a doctrine that allowed the picking up of a large lithos. So by not using the same word, you think you step around the issue. God isn't stupid that he should let ya'll do such things without an answering. It may be in His time; but, don't delude yourselves. There will be an answering.