How do you reconcile your interpretation with the depictions of animals and angels in the Temple, and especially, the images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant? How do you reconcile your interpretation with the bronze serpent?
It seems like the key take away isn't that "images bad" but one shouldn't, you know, worship idols.
-CryptoLutheran
How do you reconcile your interpretation with the depictions of animals and angels in the Temple, and especially, the images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant? How do you reconcile your interpretation with the bronze serpent?
It seems like the key take away isn't that "images bad" but one shouldn't, you know, worship idols.
-CryptoLutheran
Your 1st point - God told them to do it. It was His temple.
your 2nd point - The Bible doesn't say that.
The key take away is exactly what it says in Exodus 20.
It says NO to "any" images 3 times. Any image, any likeness, any thing.
Then it gives 3 places. Presumably the only 3 places by the way.. That is in Heaven, earth, or below the earth.
It really doesn't get any simpler than that. What is more drastic is that doubling and tripling a directive / point / concept in the Bible is a way of not only verifying it, but also solidifying it as a very extreme warning. ExampleGod is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY.
3 is a number of completion / perfection.
If God says something 1 time it's important. But when he says it a second time it is very important. But when, and if He says it a third time, if you are smart, you will act quickly.
Then concept of images being bad in the Bible is pretty easy to trace. It's like EVERYWHERE. And it's not the worshipping of them it is the: creation of them and most commonly possessing them. Worshipping them is the least mentioned as a cause for divine intervention.
On another note the vitriol and insults that members of this forum showed to Goodbook is absolutely no surprise to me.
Why?
She is allowed her opinion. And her concerns are valid and biblical.
In the judgement I would much rather stand next to her than the people that abused her.
Grow up, bullies.