>Regarding Catholic iconography - is this not a violation of the command to NOT make graven images for people to worship?<
We don’t “worship” the icons.
Sorry for your ignorance.
Read that same page in the Bible and notice the instructions for carving, engraving, and ornation of the Tabernacle.
How do you know people in Mexico City and other cities do not worship these “tokens”? Sure seems that every time someone imagines the face of Mary in a tortilla people build a shrine and worship the tortilla. (I wonder how these folks know what Mary looked like.) If people in my church were to do such a thing, we would deny that it happens - we would rebuke the person for idolatry.
uh - Christians are not instructed to build temples, as we each are the temple of God and, having the Spirit of God within us we need to other temple. “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing”
What would have happened to any Israeli
. . . bowing down to, praying toward, prostrating himself in front of, focusing incessantly on . . . kissing, carrying around a replica thereof in his donkey cart . . . framing replicas of in his home in places of honore for rituals fo ‘adoration,’ ‘veneration,’ in a home focus . . . made hymns and poetry to and about . . . .
of the temple ornamentations?
Thank you for your blessings,
my faithful temple pomagranite.
Your rosey cheeks cheer me
daily as I dream of your
Precious juice and life giving
benefits. Thank you for your
hanging nearer my God to thee.
. . . . riiiiiggggghhhht
ZAP.
At a minimum there’d have been a new pile of stones.
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Now, dear Prottys, we’ll see how they rubberize themselves out of the truth about that. But, I’m confident that rationalizations spring eternal.