That reminds me, when Jesus said about Him being raised up as the snake in the wilderness, the snake was on a pole too. And by His wounds we are healed.
You are correct about the bowing, my mistake.
Hurrah! Thank you, Jude!• Seventh Ecumenical Council (787 A.D.)
Session 1
CHURCH FATHERS: Second Council of Nicaea
• 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.
Seventh Ecumenical Council - OrthodoxWiki
I recall illustrating the trinity all throughout the Old Testament once, when some Jehovah Witnesses came to talk. I avoided the gospel of John since they had all sorts of rebuttals prepared for it.
That's a smart way of doing it, contemporary church movements don't like this idea, but it represents a total replacement therapy from the old life into the new.
