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thereselittleflower. If you can't see the happenings between God and Solomon, where Solomon acted on his own accord, God warned him, Solomon continued and begged for God's inclusion, God granted it with a condition, solomon broke his promise.....I'm afraid I can't help you any further.
I hope you know that the bible is a story, it tells us about the bad things and the good things. I hope you don't think that we should slaughter animals and sacrifice them because the ancients did it?
God Bless.
I am amazed reading his people argueing about why or why not to stare at statues..
Hi TLF. There is no longer a Jewish Temple/Sanctuary to bow down to today, though I do not think any church today has much to worry about in that regard [except maybe by the Muslim extremists]We see that not only is it perfectly OK to venerate/revere religious objects and images, WE ARE ACTUALLY COMMANDED TO DO SO! :
Leviticus 19:30 You shall venerate my sanctuary: I am the LORD.Psalm 138:2 I bow down toward thy holy temple...The temple includes all that is within it - including the multitude of images found within.
Why are you amazed?
Attacking the Catholic faith is a favorite pastime of some on CF.
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Obviously, God approves the use of Images in His house of worship
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I am just waiting for the term "Babylonian mystery cult" to pop up.
Oh and Oblio and sunlover, good to see both of you around. Always nice to have you two contribute to the conversation
I don't understand why sincere questioning of something that the RCC does should be considered "attacking" it. 1) If faith is weak enough that it offends to be questioned in it, it should be reexamined. 2) I often feel that many RCC have a percecution complex, that if anyone dare question what it is they do, they are being attacked.Why are you amazed?
Attacking the Catholic faith is a favorite pastime of some on CF.
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I think it's a stretch to assign a command to venerate icons, based on this arguement. First, it speaks of the temple, as the house of God, not the statues or icons within it. Secondly, we aren't talking about the temple anyways.Trento brought some very important scripture into this discussion . . I wonder if anyone really caught it?
We are talking right now about the religious use of images in God's house and whether or not
1) it is appropriate to use themand
2) is it appropriate to venerate them . .and to answer those questions we have been turning to scripture.
Now, question 1 above has been answered in the affirmative as we see God approving and honoring Solomon's Temple by the very presence of His Glory, and Solomon's Temple was FULL of images.
Now, the 2nd question was answered from scripture in the affirmative as well, as we saw in Trento's post.
We see that not only is it perfectly OK to venerate/revere religious objects and images, WE ARE ACTUALLY COMMANDED TO DO SO! :
Leviticus 19:30 You shall venerate my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Psalm 138:2 I bow down toward thy holy temple...The temple includes all that is within it - including the multitude of images found within.
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