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| Christians Should Not Possess Sculptings, Pictures, Etc. Of Angels. |
| The Second Commandment states, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the Earth. |
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You can own whatever you want if you want to have an angel sculpture in your house then you can go
get one and put it in your house and what does being a christian have to do with having angel
sculptures in your house |
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It is the nature of free will and being human that we have the ability and the desire to examine,
analyze, and reason. We have the ability to not only choose our own path but to change our path as
new information or revelations occur to us. Does it make sense to you that your god would endow us
with this magnificent ability for adaptation and development and then expect us to rigidly adhere to
a set of rules designed as training wheels for a group of people who were primitive, brutal, and
violent?
Look at the world around us. What stands out about humans? Compare us to the other animals, are we
strong or fertile or fast? The only thing that is particular to us is that we reason and create.
Birds have wings to fly. Fish have gills to breath under water. So why do we have our big fat
brains? |
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I think your talking about i Jehovah witness, you cant have any kind of those things, But why cant
they have sculptings, i have a friend that christian, and he has them too |
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Why shouldn't they. Freedom of religion |
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It has nothing to do with what we possess. (ok..don't make it...just buy it lol)
The first deals with what we worship. An idol is something we make and assign value to here on
earth, but God comes into our life from beyond this physical realm.
The second deals with the way God wants us to worship, be devoted, and respond to what He is and
what He is doing, not what we think He looks like. He wants us to emulate His character and the way
He lives.
(it also has to do with the fact that worshipping made objects was quite fashionable at the time) |
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I believe that that commandment is talking about the possession of an idol that is in the form of
something in the heavens or beneath the earth or water and that you should not have one or worship
it. |
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The Bible says a lot of things. I can almost guarantee you don’t even know two percent of the
entire context within the Bible. You just repeat what you’ve heard from others. |
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You forgot about money and that "in gawd we trust" nonsense. That's the worst idolatry, since the
buybull explicitly bans the worship of money and mammon.
Edit:
I see the masturdebater is trying to rationalize with irrational lies.
Just because the mythical "god" name is printed instead of engraved doesn't mean it's not
idolatry.
That's why it's called hypochristianity: The christians are hypocrites. |
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No. You took it out of context. It was part of the you shall not worship or bow down to other
gods.
Because we also have pictures of earthly things and people in our homes and that is not a graven
image I worship.
I prefer Bible quotes to be mounted rather than pictures... Personally.
EDIT::
Exodus 20 (New King James Version)
Exodus 20
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall
not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him
guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your
work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: You,
nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle,
nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the
earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 “ Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the
LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is
your neighbor’s.” |
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The bible says a lot of things, just take some of it with a pinch of salt and concern yourself with
the main theme, that of peace and love, and you won't go far wrong. |
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