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To: lastchance
>> I do care that you spread error and are not able to grasp the flaws in your argument.<<

Then maybe you should show me from scripture where God rescinded His restriction on making images of Him and said it was something that could be done.

843 posted on 01/13/2012 12:14:54 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

The Incarnation.

God Himself sent us an image of Himself. Now I will agree to form an image and claim that it is God the Father and to adore such an image would be idolatry. But to replicate in art our idea of what Jesus looked like when He was in His human body is not idolatry. To adore that image as if it really were Christ and not just a depiction of Him would be idolatry.

Unless you think Christ is a graven image. Which I am sure you don’t.

God the Father is spirit and it would be impossible to make an image of Him. The 2nd commandment which you bludgeon Catholics with forbids the making of images that are worshipped as gods (idols). That’s the whole you shall not bow down and worship them. But perhaps you believe the first part of the that passage is a stand alone part. If you do then I assume you follow the Islam or Amish practice of not permitting any photos or other depictions of the natural world.

Abstract art is o.k. though so your walls don’t have to be bare. Though I think Amish may believe collecting art is vanity and a sign of pride.


866 posted on 01/13/2012 12:35:22 PM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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