“The early Christians would have looked with horror at the bare suggestion of placing images in the churches, and would have considered bowing down or praying before them as nothing less than idolatry.”- History of the Christian Church A COMMON CLAIM Quit touching the unclean thing.”- 2 Corinthians 6:16, 17. “What agreement does God’s temple have with idols?. “I give my glory to no one else,” God said through the prophet Isaiah, “nor my praise to graven images.”- Isaiah 42:8. In fact, nowhere in the Bible do we read of a faithful Israelite using an image for worship. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOWĬontrary to what the New Catholic Encyclopedia asserts, faithful Jews did not venerate any of the engravings or figures associated with the temple. The veneration of images is consistently condemned in the Hebrew Scriptures, commonly known as the Old Testament A COMMON CLAIMĪccording to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the Jews had an abundance of images associated with their worship “and these representations were honored, reverenced, and venerated.” * As examples, that encyclopedia cites the numerous engravings of fruits, flowers, and animals that adorned the temple in Jerusalem.- 1 Kings 6:18 7:36. You must not bow down to them nor be enticed to serve them.”- Exodus 20:4, 5. “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
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