Do you even know what “graven” means? The Hebrew and Greek words mean “molten idol.” The irony is that the iconoclast Protestants went straight out and made statues of their political figures, like British politicians, Luther, Calvin, et al. Were the iconoclastic Protestants idolators? No, because they didn’t believe that Cromwell, Henry VIII, Luther or Calvin were gods. Neither do Catholics.
Get over it.
If we felt people should worship Ashoreth, we’d say so.
IF AND WHEN
you find Proddys bowing down to such images and saying prayers before such images,
PLEASE, let me know.
Until then, your analogy
UTTERLY FAILS.
And until the Proddy churches TEACH THAT and the leaders MODELED THAT bowing down to and praying before such images is a righteous thing to do—you’d still nearly utterly fail even if a few Proddys did the unthinkable.
IF AND WHEN
you find Proddys bowing down to such images and saying prayers before such images,
BTW, PRODDYS did NOT write the following, GOD DID:
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Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Isaiah 2:9
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 4:25
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Isaiah 44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 44:15
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
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PLEASE, let me know.
Until then, your analogy
UTTERLY FAILS.
And until the Proddy churches TEACH THAT and the leaders MODELED THAT bowing down to and praying before such images is a righteous thing to do--you'd still nearly utterly fail even if a few Proddys did the unthinkable.