![]() So anything in the LIKENESS of YHWH’s creation like dolls which represent a human being to animal life should not be found in your homes. ![]() The same for statues of birds, cattle, creeping things that are in the earth beneath and statues or images of fish, whales, or other sea creatures that are in the waters under the earth. Joes, busts of presidents and those in the Hall of Fame are forbidden. Statues of YESHUA or angels that are in the likeness of the heavens above (and we do not even know what YESHUA looks like) statues or toys of men or women: such as Barbie dolls, teddy bears, stuffed animals, statues, action figures by McFarland Toys, G.I. For I, YHWH your ELOHIM, am a jealous EL (God), visiting the wickedness of the ancestors on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My Commands.” “Flee from idolatry.”- 1 Corinthians 10:14.“ You DO NOT MAKE for yourself a carved image, or any LIKENESS of that which is in the heavens above, or which in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, you do not bow down to them nor serve them. The fact that such images were in the catacombs merely shows that by the third century, nominal Christians had adopted the pagan custom of using images, likely to attract converts. Therefore, what the New Catholic Encyclopedia calls “early Christian worship” is not the earliest Christian worship-that which was practiced by first-century disciples and described in the Christian Greek Scriptures, commonly known as the New Testament. That was some 200 years after Jesus died. The oldest images found in these catacombs-underground passages used as burial places-date back only to the third century. Even mythological figures adorn the holy chambers of sacred worship and burial.” * WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ![]() “The Christian catacombs are veritable galleries of early Christian art. . . “The use of images in early Christian worship cannot now be reasonably questioned,” says the New Catholic Encyclopedia. “The early Christians would have looked with horror at the bare suggestion of placing images in the churches, and would have considered bowing down or praying before them as nothing less than idolatry.”- History of the Christian Church A COMMON CLAIM Quit touching the unclean thing.”- 2 Corinthians 6:16, 17. “What agreement does God’s temple have with idols?. “I give my glory to no one else,” God said through the prophet Isaiah, “nor my praise to graven images.”- Isaiah 42:8. In fact, nowhere in the Bible do we read of a faithful Israelite using an image for worship. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOWĬontrary to what the New Catholic Encyclopedia asserts, faithful Jews did not venerate any of the engravings or figures associated with the temple. The veneration of images is consistently condemned in the Hebrew Scriptures, commonly known as the Old Testament A COMMON CLAIMĪccording to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the Jews had an abundance of images associated with their worship “and these representations were honored, reverenced, and venerated.” * As examples, that encyclopedia cites the numerous engravings of fruits, flowers, and animals that adorned the temple in Jerusalem.- 1 Kings 6:18 7:36. You must not bow down to them nor be enticed to serve them.”- Exodus 20:4, 5. “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
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