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To: Salvation

“Do you go to movies about Christ?”

Nah, the Bible is good enough for me.


11 posted on 08/05/2016 8:54:59 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman; Salvation

My dear Boogieman, if the Bible’s enough for you, why on earth are you quoting Tertullian?

And what are you doing on Free Republic?? Wonderful we may be, but ain’t none of us composing Sacred Scripture!

BTW, the two greatest anti-idolatry voices in the early Church, Tertullian and Gregory the Great, both noted that the carved images of the Cherubim in the Holy of Holys, and the bronze serpent lifted up by Moses, were NOT against God’s law because they were NOT meant for idolatrous purposes.

So there’s your criterion: if it’s not meant for idolatrous purposes, it’s not idolatry.

And normal people understand this. Rare is the crank who would object to Christmas Nativity figurines, or carven angels found next to the “Praying Hands” on tombstones in Christian cemeteries.


37 posted on 08/05/2016 3:16:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He will save the children of the poor, and crush the oppressor.")
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