Posted on 02/08/2023 6:01:55 PM PST by marshmallow
Yes, that’s true.
It’s a deeply powerful place.
Yup. Called “Jerusalem syndrome”
I’ve known some but they were Presbyterians. We didn’t allow pictures of Jesus in the Sunday School rooms.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”
= = =
I think ‘carved image’ is a truer translation than ‘idol’ in that verse.
And I ponder that verse as I look at paintings and sculptures in and out of the Church.
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