(May 14, 2010 at 2:51 pm)Watson Wrote: As for graven images, if I'm not mistaken, a graven image is any image crated with the intent of worship as an idol above or beyond God. If it is simply a biblical picture or image of some sort, it is not a graven image.
I think you're wrong.
Here's what the commandment says, "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."
Now, let's say you're correct in that "graven image" refers to an image that is used as a focal point for worship. (It doesn't specifically say that, but let's go with it.) In fact, Webster's defines "graven image" thusly: "an object of worship carved usually from wood or stone".
I don't know about you, but I've seen many people paying homage to statues and pictures of Jesus and Mary (not to mention numerous saints). Are these people not praying to a "graven image"?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
