He won’t allow images of false Gods to exist....many scriptural references including the 10 commandments indicate this! So I by faith believe God can not be false to his word and his glory! So I won’t “pretend”, I’ll declare by faith that all false Gods and images and statues of such will be cast down. God will send the image of the Beast to the Lake of Fire, Revelation declares this! The only image God will allow is the image of his son Jesus Christ shining out from the hearts of his children! Vanities that enflame the lusts of the flesh, the lust of eyes and the pride of life will also be done away with!
“He won’t allow images if false Gods to exist.”
You are seriously misquoting the Ten Commandments.
God tells us not to make graven images. He does NOT say He will stop us from making them. We follow the Commandment of our own free will.
He won’t allow images of false Gods to exist.
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I certainly know that the gods worshiped by the ancient Greeks and Romans were false gods, but I do not think that the average person who goes to view them is engaging in any sort of worship of the gods depicted.
People today view these as great works of art and as historical artifacts. Those who created them just had not learned the truth about the one true God, but they knew that there was something mystical outside themselves. I will not hold it against them that they lived in darkness, as I suspect that their intentions were not evil. We, today, are blessed with the opportunity to know of the one true God.
I am confidant that our loving God will not condemn me for appreciating the art of these ancient statues, since he knows that I do not, in any way, believe in these as deities.
BTW, why do you capitalize “gods” when referring to these false gods?