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To: Romulus
Veneration of images. The name of Jesus is given to him -- not intrinsic to his being -- and thus represents him. IOW, it is an image, one that we venerate.

The name of Jesus is not a thing created by the hand of man.

ROMANS 1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
ROMANS 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
ROMANS 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
ROMANS 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
ROMANS 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
ROMANS 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
ROMANS 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
ROMANS 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
ROMANS 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
ROMANS 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
ROMANS 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
ROMANS 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
ROMANS 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
ROMANS 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

74 posted on 01/18/2002 8:53:55 AM PST by Unbeliever
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To: Unbeliever
The name of Jesus is not a thing created by the hand of man.

Concur. An angel of the Lord in Luke 1:31 said:

"And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

and the Prophet Isaiah in 7:14 said:

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

79 posted on 01/18/2002 9:10:15 AM PST by Hat-Trick
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To: Unbeliever
The name of Jesus is not a thing created by the hand of man.

Not so; the name is given by God, but it was common enough amongst the Jewish people. The name is man-made.

Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

1 Cor 15:49 Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

2 Cor 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

[Man is called to be a transfigured Image of Christ]

1 Cor 11:7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God.

[God creates man himself to serve him and glorify Him as His image.]

2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Coloss 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature...

[The man Jesus is God's image]

Iconoclasm always ends in the denial of the Incarnation. Just ask any Muslim.

80 posted on 01/18/2002 9:10:41 AM PST by Romulus
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