(but I do mercy unto thousands, to those who love me, and who keep my commandments. Its pretty, he said, But doesnt the Bible warn against graven images. To fully understand the 2nd Commandment against idols, we must also understand the spirit of the law concerning the other commandments as well.
Thou shalt not make to thee a graven image, neither any likeness of (any)thing that is in heaven above, and that is in (the) earth beneath, neither of those things that be in waters under the earth (Thou shalt not make a carved image for thyself, nor any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or of those things that be in the waters under the earth ) thou shalt not bow down to them, neither worship them for I am thy Lord God, a strong(ly) jealous lover I visit the wickedness of (the) fathers in (the) children into the third and fourth generation of them that hated me, (thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God I punish the children for the wickedness of their fathers, unto the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,) and I do mercy into thousands, to them that love me, and keep my behests. Exodus 20:4 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth'.
If God has a body, we can make a statue depicting it, especially when it shows what He has done to save us.2. And if Jesus has a face, we are able to draw pictures of it, based on the pictures drawn by the guys who hung out with Him a couple of millenia ago. The phrase comes from Exodus 20:4, which in the King James translation reads, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything. Leviticus 26:1 commands, 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. Since time memorial man has been making graven images and. But in Christ's incarnation, God took on flesh. Secondly, the command forbids making of any graven image to represent God or to be a god an idol. In the Old Testament times, God did not have a body. Representations I understand it kinda creeps me out to hear talk of icons being a means to communicate with those who've gone on before.)Īnyway, back to John's point. Some Orthodox writers talk about icons as representations of salvation history and the saints, while others talk about icons as a way to have a mystical encounter with the saints. (Aside: I'm not saying I agree with everything at this link. St John of Damascus (whom we Lutherans might know because of his hymns "The Day of Resurrection" and "Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain") said that we can make graven images now. But a friend's blog yesterday mentioned something from the 700's.
#You shall not make any graven images windows
That was the only response I ever had for the iconoclasts (the people who disapprove of crucifixes, icons, stained glass windows in churches, and creches at Christmastime). The two main clauses of the second commandment are to be read together, so as to form one sentence: Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, &c., so as to worship it. Still, we say of the photo, "That's my dad." Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy. (4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. He's a flesh-and-blood person who begat me and taught me to bowl and ate supper with me. Just like you and I know that my dad is not an arrangement of electricity and pixels on a computer screen. They knew he meant that it depicted his God. This expression is from the second of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not make unto thee any. Those Wiccans knew that Pastor Wiest didn't think that the little piece of metal hanging over his heart was, itself, his god. a carved representation of a god used as an object of worship. This is the true God."Ī friend asked once, "Who is the man in the picture with you, on the sidebar of your blog?" I told him, "That's my dad." That's what he expected me to say. One of them, having been raised Christian, knew the passage from the ten commandments (Exodus 20) about not making "graven images." The gals asked if his crucifix wasn't a graven image and wondered how that fit with the prohibition against worshiping false gods. They had noticed his funny-lookin' pastor-clothes, and so they asked him about his crucifix and what he believed. Pastor Wiest told the story of chatting with a few Wiccans one day.
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