Hi Spiderman. Good afternoon. Thank you for the rating. Well, we will have to agree to disagree, but again, as I said, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance would seem quite reliable. Haven't you heard the saying: “Young’s for the young, Strong’s for the strong". It's a very good resource to use...
Go down to the Caribbean or Central or South America and take a look, it wont be hard to find. Now if you check, the Oxford dictionary defines an idol as:' An image used as an object of worship. A person or thing that is the object of excessive devotion.' .
So an Idolater is a worshiper or...
You can say they represent the Saints, yet they are still of wood or stone or metal, and people come and worship them no matter how it is called. Now what does scripture say, does God allow even the idol of a 'saint' or anything made as a idol, lets see...
"Therefore say unto the house of...
Bowing down to humans as an act of respect was admissible in the Jewish faith, but bowing to anyone other than Jehovah as a deity was prohibited by God. (Exodus 23:24; 34:14) Similarly, the worshipful bowing down to religious images or to any created thing was positively condemned. (Exodus 20:4...
Yes that's exactly what happen. God wanted to be Israel's only king, but Israel wanted to be like other nations. You would know this if you actually read the bible like you claimed too.
God took David's child to punish him for his adultery with the woman and the murdering of the woman's wife...
Koran 2:115
To God belong the East and the West; whithersoever you turn, there is the Face of God; God is All-embracing, All-knowing.
Koran 55: 26
Everyone upon the earth will perish,
Koran 55:27
And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.
"You shall not make...
I think we can agree about Not praying to a statue, picture, etc.
In my view, God's Law is that carved/graven images ( even the making of them ) was prohibited according to Exodus 20:4-5; Leviticus26:1; Isaiah 42:8
EXODUS 20:4
Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below."
Exodus 34:17
"Do not make any idols."
Leviticus26:1
"'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not...
Tell me, how do Catholics obey this:
Matthew 23:9 And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
Matthew 23:8 "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
Catholics call their brothers 'father', and their...
Since there is different font patterns I figure I change the color instead.
God says NOT TO BOW TO THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS.
The Catholics bow to the works of their hands.
If you and I bow before a refigerator and prayed the Lord's Prayer would it make it less effective if we prayed in front...
God says NOT TO BOW TO THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS.
The Catholics bow to the works of their hands.
Leviticus26:1 "'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it...
Earthly nations are not God's kingdom, and are not organized according to His commandments, nor have they ever been, so it is nonsensical to expect Christianity to be the law of the land.
We are under an obligation to serve God, love Him and keep His commandments, but an atheist is not, because...
There is no other God but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
God is a jealous God, and does not respect freedom of religion, nor any form of dissent.
So there can be no concept of religious freedom, pluralism, and tolerance in God's kingdom:-
Isaiah 45:5 - I am the Lord, and there is no...
There is no other God but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
God is a jealous God, and does not respect freedom of religion, nor any form of dissent.
So there can be no concept of religious freedom, pluralism, and tolerance in God's kingdom:-
Isaiah 45:5 - I am the Lord, and there is no...
This is what ive talked about earlier.
But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up, and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses
You have taken a scripture that is clearly speaking of circumcision and applied it to the...
I believe this is interpretation of the words. And since the words have changed so much from version to version to version of the Bible, all we have now is the interpretation of the interpretation of the interpretation of the Bible. All I'm saying is that anyone can interpret it to mean...
I'm using the very example you gave in your OP, that of Jeremiah 10. Let's walk through this:
[/B]Here it is clear that the "way of the heathen" mentioned is, specifically, the crafting of idols which would then be worshipped as gods. In fact, if you read between the lines, you'll see that...