[editor-surveyor]

So, you’re saying that we should simply shoot catholics for removing the 2nd Commandment from the other nine?

A little much I’d say; the Lord will be giving them enough headaches at the Great White Throne.

[RobbyS]

The Commandments are not numbered. Not in the Hebrew. The Commandments are, after all, just one long prologue to the Law that follows, which is a kind of constitution of the nation of Israel. The prohibition of icons is basically saying that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is NOT like the gods that Abraham’s father made back in Ur, or the Canaanite gods, or the Egyptians or the Greek gods, or the Arabian gods that Mohammad saw in the Kaaba.

The Ark was the only sacred object that the Jews worshipped, and part of that were the carved figures that adorned the Ark. Of course, the temple itself, which was just a stone replica of the Tent, was, in a way, a sacred object. And of course, the Scriptures, also made by human hands, are also sacred objects, and frequent adored with pictures of holy people. The Muslims, of course, don’t do this. Are you sure you are not a Muslim?