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If that is true then God violated his own law. You can’t wiggle that statement. Which we know did not happen. How do explain that people bowed down before the statues of the angels on the ark and they got away with it from God. Something does not make sense here with that statement.

There’s a difference between bowing down before the ark which had angels on it and bowing down TO the angels on the ark.

Besides, the statutes that we’ve seen pictures of people bowing down to are not with the ark, but are stand alone’s.

Anyone who bows down before a statue TO it to pray TO it, is disobeying God.

The picture of the pope bowing before a statue of Mary is direct disobedience of the clear commands of God.

Catholics bowing in prayer and lighting candles to statues in churches are disobeying God.

There’s just not much way to rationalize your way out of it.

John,

I'm a bit shocked at that post of yours.

That kind of cheap rationalization is beneath you, imho.

God insituted the Ark and the behaviors around it.

God instituted the absolutely crucial !COMMAND! to avoid bowing down to any other man made object (with the one exception of the serpent on the staff for healing--which GOD HAD LATER DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IDOLATRY).

Both those facts merely display God's sovereignty.

Neither the Ark nor the brass serpent is the least bit of excuse in God's eyes or any other rational student of the Bible who is exercising consistent logic and integrity about what they are reading.

Exodus 20:4-6 4 "You shall NOT make for yourself
a carved image,
or 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 or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

STILL STANDS FULLY IN FORCE.

IF you think God has changed HIS jealous perspectives on such matters, then I have to wonder if we really know the same God Almighty of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.