Endurance wrote:
Friend, you are twisting and taking my arguments into an area that I never spoke of. I never said that every image in the world is evil. It is the use and symbolism given to the image that I am arguing. As far as the Russain guy. His arguments are against scripture and if you agree with him, that is your choice. Can you back up his logic with scripture? Can you give one scripture where God says that images should be used in the fashion that he suggest?
God condemns making objects and attributing to those objects divinity or divine power. I think I'll take His side friend...
It seems that you have not understood idolatry. The pagans never considered the actual image to be a god. the image only served as a representation of that divine being, just as this guy suggest. But hey, the Isrealites hardened their hearing against God when He told them to stop serving them. And today, people still cling to their divine images...
Sorry I was under the impression you were arguing against all images. You kept saying how bad making graven images was. So I thought you actually thought all graven images were bad. However your saying it is simply when we attribute divine Power to them. ok well you do see from the quote I gave before that divine Power can work through objects. May I ask why it matters if that object looks like anything?
actually we see this in the snale as well. God was working through an object that looked like a snake. the problem was that the Jews didn't diferenciate between the power of God working through the snake and and power being generated from the snake itself.