And not all Anglicans--or Lutherans--are protestants! Some of them are Anglo-Catholics and evangelical catholics. For the record, I am an Orthodox-oriented evangelical catholic Lutheran who attends a Serbian Orthodox church about once a month. Yes, I venerate icons. And I believe that Lutherans and Anglicans need to take the lead in recovering the Orthodoxy of the West!!!!
And there were two icons (one of the Lord and one of the Theotokos) behnd the altar in the Lutheran church I was in this morning!!!!
"And not all Anglicans--or Lutherans--are protestants! Some of them are Anglo-Catholics and evangelical catholics... Yes, I venerate icons. And I believe that Lutherans and Anglicans need to take the lead in recovering the Orthodoxy of the West!!!!"
Indeed. This is something I learned here on FR and for which I am very grateful.
As Luther clearly said, councils are not infallible, even ecumenical ones, and they have erred.
If the 7th ecumenical council recommends behavior which contradicts:
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image... you shall not bow down to them nor serve them."
(Exodus 20:4,5)(The 2nd Commandment)
Taking images and bowing down to them, which is a description of icon veneration, would clearly seem to contradict what is prohibited in this command.
When it comes to an ecumenical council or what some Anglicans or Lutherans or Eastern churches practice, God's word, I will stay with Holy Scipture, thanks. The ancient Greek iconoclasts were right...to follow scipture.
When opposing the homosexual churchmen who pervert the scipture, basing our arguments on the solid ground of scripture, its not advisable to compromise in the name of councils or tradition on other issues.