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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Well your ‘point’ shows, directly, that you have no idea what the prohibition on ‘graven images’ is about. They are images that are made by hand to be worshipped. Think of the golden calf. None of those examples you give were for the purpose of worshipping that item.

Try again.


30 posted on 07/12/2016 2:44:36 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: RoadGumby

The comment was made as a blanket statement of a general prohibition about images. Not a prohibition about the worship of images. The Jews did culturally disdain images because they **could** be worshipped, but it is Islam that has a general prohibition. The Jews did not.

In the same way that the modern U.S. Evangelical Church disdains alcohol, but there is not a general prohibition against alcohol in Christianity.


31 posted on 07/12/2016 5:58:37 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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