Psalms 136:6
to him who spread out the earth upon the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
Deuteronomy 4:16-18
beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figures, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
Deuteronomy 5:8
You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the water under the earth;
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You Who Laid The Foundations Of The Earth, So That IT SHOULD NOT BE MOVED FOREVER,
• Psalm 104:5
Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns;
The world also is firmly established, It Shall Not Be Moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously."
• Psalm 96:10
Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, Stand Still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon." So The Sun Stood Still, And The Moon Stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So The Sun Stood Still In The Midst Of Heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.
• Joshua 10:12-15
And You Shall Make Two Of Cherubim Of Gold; Of Hammered Work You Shall Make Them At The Two Ends Of The Mercy Seat.
• Exodus 25:18
• 7th Ecumenical Council - Second Council of Nicaea (787 A.D.)
Second Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia
- The clear distinction between the adoration offered to God and that accorded to the images may well be looked upon as a result of the iconoclastic reform. The twenty-two canons[7] drawn up in Constantinople also served ecclesiastical reform. Careful maintenance of the ordinances of the earlier councils, knowledge of the scriptures on the part of the clergy, and care for Christian conduct are required, and the desire for a renewal of ecclesiastical life is awakened.
The council also decreed that every altar should contain a relic, which remains the case in modern Catholic and Orthodox regulations (Canon VII), and made a number of decrees on clerical discipline, especially for monks when mixing with women.
CHURCH FATHERS: Second Council of Nicaea
(Session 1)
(Labbe and Cossart,
Concilia, Tom. VII., col. 53.)
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Certain bishops who had been led astray by the Iconoclasts came, asking to be received back. The first of these was Basil of Ancyra.]
These things thus I confess and to these I assent, and therefore in simplicity of heart and in uprightness of
mind, in the presence of
God, I have made the subjoined
anathematisms.
• Anathema to the
calumniators of the
Christians, that is to the
image breakers.
• Anathema to those who apply the words of
Holy Scripture which were spoken against
idols, to the venerable images.
• Anathema to those who do not salute the
holy and venerable images.
• Anathema to those who say that
Christians have recourse to the images as to gods.
• Anathema to those who call the sacred images idols.
• Anathema to those who knowingly communicate with those who revile and dishonour the venerable images.
• Anathema to those who say that another than Christ our Lord has delivered us from
idols.
• Anathema to those who spurn the teachings of the
holy Fathers and the tradition of the
Catholic Church, taking as a pretext and making their own the arguments of
Arius,
Nestorius,
Eutyches, and Dioscorus, that unless we were evidently taught by the Old and New Testaments, we should not follow the teachings of the
holy Fathers and of the
holy Ecumenical Synods, and the tradition of the
Catholic Church.
• Anathema to those who dare to say that the
Catholic Church has at any time sanctioned
idols.
• Anathema to those who say that the making of images is a diabolical invention and not a tradition of our
holy Fathers.
This is my confession [of
faith] and to these propositions I give my assent. And I pronounce this with my whole heart, and
soul, and mind.
And if at any time by the fraud of the
devil (which may God forbid!) I voluntarily or involuntarily shall be opposed to what I have now professed, may I be
anathema from the
Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost, and from the
Catholic Church and every hierarchical order a stranger.
I will keep myself from every acceptance of a
bribe and from filthy lucre in accordance with the divine canons of the
holy Apostles and of the approved Fathers.
Tarasius, the most
holy Patriarch, said: This whole sacred gathering yields
glory and thanks to God for this confession of yours, which you have made to the
Catholic Church.
The Holy Synod said: Glory to God which makes one that which was severed.
