![]() The First Commandment would seem absolutely to forbid the making of any kind of representation of men, animals, or even plants: Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. I only want for you to be acquainted with My actual face so that you will in no way be shocked when you finally see Me.Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Yes, indeed the pictures you have used capture unique facets of My person and I have no objection to you using them. “My Bride, I didn’t want you to feel alienated from Me, I truly am represented in all those images of Me. Jesus Himself gave His opinion about pictures to me on this topic when we were discussing another subject. And this is something that’s been grossly misunderstood and misrepresented from the Scriptures. And when I look at that picture, I’m not worshipping the picture, the paper or the photograph or the art! I’m worshipping HIM and His presence. Or for those believers who do not seek HIS answers to such questions, but rather go along with whatever the popular opinion is of the people that they listen to.īefore I tell you what Jesus said about making pictures, portraits of Him, I just want you to know, I don’t worship a picture. We want to remember an occasion, something we or they did, a period of time… The misunderstandings over this issue are all just another trap that Satan sets for those who are lukewarm – believing by mouth and not heart. Just like we hang pictures of our loved ones around the house. Making them of people who are recognized – especially by people of the Catholic faith, creates great confusion among religious people, those who are not truly following the Lord, truly just using the statues in church and elsewhere to touch their hearts with remembrance and thanksgiving to God for the lives of these people. But don’t stumble over that, either! He was declaring the very same thing that we are saying in this article: those statues are made, and then demons assigned to them – MAKING them idols. If you have seen the video about John Ramirez that is on our Youtube channel, you have seen him go into a store and point to statues of Jesus, Mary, angels, saints… and say that they are idols. He’s talking about people who made little demon images and would sit there are worship them. ![]() So, that should clarify and help you to understand what the Scriptures REALLY say about photographs and statues. You are worshipping the God Who is represented in the image. You are not worshipping the object you are looking at. So, it IS lawful to have an image of God, a painting or a statue. Stands were also made out of bronze, with lions, bulls and cherubim within them. This Sea was set on 12 carved bulls and it could contain 12,000 vat-fulls of water. A very large bowl, 25 feet from rim to rim and 12 feet high. And this is when the Temple of Solomon was being constructed, where Solomon was instructed to build a Sea – constructed out of metal. And just to be clear about the timing of this, Exodus was written 1,400 years before Christ and I Kings was written 840 years later. Only when they represent a false god and are worshipped.Īnd the proof of that is substantiated in I Kings, chapter 7. The Scriptures say nothing about statues and pictures in general being forbidden. So, a graven image was the likeness of a god used in worship. In other words, the worship of idols representing gods was forbidden. A representation of a god used as an object of worship. Now, according to Webster’s dictionary, a graven image is a carved idol. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God.” Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. Going back to where it was first stated, in Exodus, Chapter 20 it is written in verse four: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above or is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth. ![]() And the source of this is always the OT quote about graven images. Never have a statue of Him or anyone else there. It seems some feel that you can never have a picture of Jesus hung, especially near your private worship/devotional place. We have this declaration come around once in a while.
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