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To: RetiredArmy
There's a difference between an "idol" and a "sign". For example, there's the sign of Moses ~ a snake on a stick.

Remember, the words you are reading are made up of alphabetical letters that were derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics which are themselves a combination of standard signs, pictures and adaptations of Sumerian stylized hieroglyphics which themselves were derived from signs ~ even shamanic signs, pictures, and so forth.

The Shroud is a sign and a picture. It's a sign in the sense that if you have sufficient scientific knowledge you can examine it and attempt to determine something about the maker.

Idolotry is a totally different topic. It does not derive from the signs, pictures, letters, hieroglyphs and so forth. Rather, it has to do with putting one's self, or a thing, in God's place. Asking "What Would Jesus Say" is idolotry. Asking "What Did Jesus Say" is a request for information from the record maintained in the New Testament.

Oh, yeah, the first, "What Would Jesus Say" requires that you or an associate put yourself in Jesus' place ~ that is, to become God ~ and then try to think a Godlike thought that will give you the ability to speak as God.

154 posted on 12/23/2011 6:47:55 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
There's a difference between an "idol" and a "sign". For example, there's the sign of Moses ~ a snake on a stick.

Moses was at the Minnesota State Fair?

/on a stick>

Cheers!

156 posted on 12/26/2011 8:58:11 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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