[Uri’el-2012]

XS>"Deuteronomy 4:16 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,....."

Let's see. Standard disclaimer, Old Testament. Moses, snakebites, bronze serpent. That constitutes a miraculous physical object, eh??

And of course, the real meaning of the phrase you quote is the part you left off, about worshipping the objects themselves. NO Catholic icon is worshipped in and of itself, it is simply a reminder of the specific manifestation of Christ or one of his "agents" (i.e. the Virgin Mary), and ALWAYS leads directly to God.

Indeed, probably some un-educated Catholics, having been badly catechized, fall into superstition--but that is NEVER the teaching of the Church, and never has been.

60 posted on 01/27/2008 4:56:16 PM MST by Wonder Warthog

YHvH commanded the construction of the bronze serpent on the stake as a
foreshadowing metaphor of Yah'shua dying on a stake for the covering of our sins.

It is blasphemous for man to claim YHvH's right to create a physical image
when it has been specifically prohibited to man in the Word of Elohim.

I do not find any reference to your "real meaning" in Deuteronomy 4.

You are commanded not act corruptly and make a graven image in any form.

It is repeated again for clarification in verse 23.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua

[Wonder Warthog]

I do not find any reference to your "real meaning" in Deuteronomy 4.You are commanded not act corruptly and make a graven image in any form. It is repeated again for clarification in verse 23.

Deuteronomy is obviously referring the the Ten Commandments, and the prohibition about WORSHIP of images. It is the WORSHIP aspect that is "acting corruptly", not the making of an image, per se.