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To: biblewonk; RnMomof7; dangus
Not true. God told Israel ~"When I spoke to you I didn't appear in any form, therefore don't make any image to represent me". You totally miss that point.

Right, and no-one (Jewish or Christian) is authorized in any passage of Scripture to make an Icon of the Father or of the Holy Spirit (well, in the case of the Holy Spirit, Christendom has generally permitted that His activity may be abstractly represented with the image of a Dove -- an Iconic representation which is often found in Protestant imagery).

But that doesn't change the fact that the Jews were directed to make Icons of the Heavenly Cherubim, which we must therefore conclude did not violate the Second Commandment (Second Commandment, OP... SECOND Commandment!)

Nor does it change the fact that Jesus Himself is, according to Hebrews 1, the "Express Image" of the Invisible Father.

117 posted on 04/01/2004 6:50:43 PM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
But that doesn't change the fact that the Jews were directed to make Icons of the Heavenly Cherubim,

More importantly, the making of the Cherubim does not change God's original desire for us not to make images that represent God.

119 posted on 04/02/2004 7:16:15 AM PST by biblewonk (The only book worth reading, and reading, and reading.)
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