Though I am of the position of images of Christ is forbidden, I believe the commandment is referring to the active worship of the image and/or utilizing it as a mean of connecting to God.

@danielritchie4400

6 ай бұрын

Could I ask what would be your case for images? More of a Regulative principle thing where they're not provided?

@user-fk8hr6gv6g

Ай бұрын

I think it's a case of not eating food sacrificed to idols if it might stumble you or another believer, for someone coming from the RCC it was a problem for me at the beginning of my born again walk , but now it isn't an issue.

I'm an artist retired in the Philippines, icons are huge here literally and figuratively. I was shocked that my local Baptist pastor asked me for a painting of Jesus in heaven! I could make money here painting icons but I personally feel convicted against it .

I went to PCC and went through the same process. Encouraged to hear someone else went down the same path!

I got kicked out and blocked in a large reformed facebook group for kindly suggesting they go private when they took away the anonymous feature. They are brutal.

What do you think about crosses.

I'm Baal-ing

Hippolytus of Rome (176-236ad), Lactantius (250-325ad), Ephiphanius (315-403ad), & Eusebius (260-340ad) condenmned images of Christ.

@janejane6778

Ай бұрын

That was a long time ago. This is ridiculous

@robschillinger3365

Ай бұрын

@@janejane6778 what was a long time ago?

So you do wear your Methodist shirt irl.

@SGFCJax

Жыл бұрын

HAHA! Yes! Nailed it.

Remember: the serpent on the pole issue and how Jesus refers to it AS an issue of understanding ETERNAL life. Also, there are artworks of the ram caught in the thicket by his horns which I believe is a direct prophecy of Jesus as God himself being the sacrifice for replacing Isaac and fulfilling Abraham for his obedience and faith. “God shall provide HIMSELF”!!! Just don’t WORSHIP the image.

To those who think images of Christ are permissible, even if you are correct, what is the point of doing so? Why do it?

@haronsmith8974

Жыл бұрын

Every Iconoclast I've met would be angered by a statue or image of Jesus Christ, but would totally be fine with statues to Mickey Mouse or some other corporate idol. Fill your house with images that remind you of who you belong to and dont make room for the devil. This is exactly why the Jews built statues of angels for the temple and why you see images of Jesus, Mary and the Saints going back to the first century.

@doubtingthomas9117

9 ай бұрын

To testify to the truth of the Incarnation.

@philagon

3 ай бұрын

@@haronsmith8974Mute images cannot speak. They remind of nothing but themselves.

@ILNIL8U

2 ай бұрын

Galatians 3:1

@janejane6778

Ай бұрын

To remember every day who you love- Jesus!! What a bunch of baloney. No one worships a statute. Get a grip !

I guess you all have no control over yourself if you had a picture or statute in front of you! Really this is absurd!!

I might respectfully say that if you yourself feel conviction over imagesof Jesus then don't use them. It may be a sin for you .

Here is something that could really bake your noodle if you think of it too long. Is theology a 1st/2nd commandment violation. I hear people all the time that quote John Calvin or John Wesley more than John the Apostle. I realize that this was a problem as early as the Pauline Epistles, but if we are going to get pedantic about things...

Did you all consider not defaming Catholics? Or you might think about the sin of gluttony too here!

Calvinism is a great heresy.