[johngrace]

Nobody is sacrificing chickens or anything else like the pagans did to their "god'. If I remember at the end of the original dialogues God put down with Moses it ends "Like the Pagans do". In my eyes that is always about sacrificing to the statue. There is more to it than just a plain image.

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[Boogieman]

“Nobody is sacrificing chickens or anything else like the pagans did to their “god’.”

Prayer is, itself, a form of sacrifice, but that is beside the point, since the commandment forbids even the making of the images, and bowing down to them, not only sacrificing to them, and it mentions nothing of “like the pagans do”.

Exodus 20:4-6

“4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

Deuteronomy 5:8-10

“8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments”