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So how do you know the JW church and Mormonism is false if the Bible is not our sole guide for all matters of faith and practice?
The picture God wants us to have of Him is His perfect character .... not our idea of what we think He might physically look like. We have not idea of this.The pictures are idolatry , directly breaking God's Instructions. No good comes from it.
Whenever I see a post on the internet about a piece of toast of a cloud, etc. that is claimed to look like Jesus, I always respond the same way: That looks more like Jerry Garcia.I remember reading somewhere about how Billy Graham saying that when he prayed, he had the image of Jesus portrayed in his mind from actor who played Jesus in the Passion of the Christ. I cannot seem to find the quote now.
Anyway, there seems to be plenty idolatrous images of Jesus going around these days.
They can take the form of artist renditions to movie actors.
There is nothing subtle (deceptive) or wrong about asking more questions. In any event, your response here really does not answer my questions.i see you have subtlety changed your queastion and applied my previousv awnswer to it ... nice try ... but from where i am seeing from the snare is laid in vain ..
What evidence convinces a person they can be taken seriously?So how do you know the JW church and Mormonism is false if the Bible is not our sole guide for all matters of faith and practice?
True, but we should pray for them, and tell the truth of God’s Word to all so that others are not led astray. We should love all and warn them because we care for their souls.What evidence convinces a person they can be taken seriously?
Ha. So when they get to heaven and see the real Jesus and discover he doesn't look like the picture maybe they'll ask well who was that stranger we had in our living room????My parents have a print of this hanging in the dining room.
Lev 26:1 - Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up-a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.It’s sad, but their love for their idol image of Jesus is more than what this passage says. Only God can reveal it to them and they would have to be willing to change. All we can do is pray for folks who cannot see it right now.
I believe just having the idol is condemned.Lev 26:1 - Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up-a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
I think the bowing down and worshiping the image is the problem and not necessarily a work of art. As long as you don’t bow down to the picture of Jesus I don’t think it’s a problem. I’ve seen some statues that depict someone praying to the statue and I’m not okay with that
This "idol" thing is pretty broad and squishy. Is that fully restored 1960's Corvette Stingray in ones garage an idol? Is it something you enjoy driving and see as an investment, or is it where you get your worth? If the latter, well, you know...I think so also. Did not someone sneak an idol into their luggage, and there was a penalty for that , even though it was hidden ? It might have been an object that was not an idol though - thousands of years ago - all I remember specifically is the woman hid it by sitting over it , concealing it , and then saying she could not rise because it was 'that time' of the month....
Revelation 1 gives a description of Him but I highly doubt He looked like this during His ministry.My parents have a print of this hanging in the dining room.
Where does it mention his looks? I don't remember that. Thanks
I mean it can be squishy in people's minds. The problem is that people don't spend a lot of time analyzing how they view every little thing in their life to see if it is an idol. It can make one neurotic. I've been a professing Christian since 1981. I've found that the more I study and pray, the more laissez faire I get, if only to keep myself from going mad. I know God's got it covered, and if my conscience convicts, it's time to do (or not do) something. So I kinda throw a lot of it into "if you believe it is a sin, it IS a sin." But I also don't bow to the "tyranny of the weaker brother". Again, it would push me toward neuroticism.It is broad, but not squishy. Yahweh and Scripture is very clear.
Yes, even an unrestored Corvette is or could be an idol.
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Chapter 2
The Trend Away From God
Having every one of us been in bondage to sin, we readily believe that sinful things are Satanic; but do we believe equally that the things of the world are Satanic? Many of us, I think, are still in two minds about this. Yet how clearly Scripture affirms that "the whole world lieth in the evil one" (1 John 5:19). Satan well knows that, generally speaking, to try to ensnare real Christians through things that are positively sinful is vain and futile. They will usually sense the danger and elude him. So he had contrived instead an enticing network, the mesh of which is so skillfully woven as to entrap the most innocent of men. We flee sinful lusts, and with good reason, but when it comes to such seemingly innocuous things as science and art and education, how readily do we lose our sense of values and fall a prey to his enticements!
Indeed.I think so also. Did not someone sneak an idol into their luggage, and there was a penalty for that , even though it was hidden ? It might have been an object that was not an idol though - thousands of years ago - all I remember specifically is the woman hid it by sitting over it , concealing it , and then saying she could not rise because it was 'that time' of the month....
Why did you stop there? Verse 5 saysRight.
Exodus 20
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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;
Verse 5 is a continuation of one thought.It is not required to list two or more commandments/instructions,
when the first one is the one that matters here.
And He was still unrecognizable after His resurrection (Luke 24:13-35). He still had the marks of His mistreatment.Jesus had recieved the 'loving' attention of the whole guard. They had 'gently' used him as a punch bag untill as he was unreogniseble.
If it were a real likeness. But one of the problems with idolatry giving reverence to an image that is not a true image.Having a picture of somebody isn't idolatry.
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