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To: Salvation
Luther's followers bucked the 1,500 year-old Christian tradition of venerating religious images and icons, some of which still appear on the walls of the early Christian catacombs.

That's not a Christian tradition...It's a pagan tradition that goes back well beyond 1500 years...

The Christian tradition according to God is 'do not build statues or icons'...

8 posted on 04/16/2007 1:24:21 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: Iscool
'do not build statues or icons'

The scripture teaches us to contemplate holy images so that we may be tranformed by them:

whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image [lit. icon] of his Son (Rom 8:29)

as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image [icon] of the heavenly (1 Cor 15:49)

who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you? (Gal. 3:1)


9 posted on 04/16/2007 2:31:56 PM PDT by annalex
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To: Iscool

Can you explain the “pagan tradition”? Imagine you quoting a tradition???


12 posted on 04/16/2007 2:51:22 PM PDT by Salvation (" With God all things are possible. ")
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To: Iscool
See post #24.
14 posted on 04/16/2007 3:09:38 PM PDT by Titanites
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To: Iscool
That's not a Christian tradition...It's a pagan tradition that goes back well beyond 1500 years...

LOL. So now all art is pagan.
17 posted on 04/16/2007 9:52:42 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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