Instead one should stick with the unambiguous interpretation of this principle that is given in Exodus 34:17, "Thou shalt make thee no molten gods." We are commanded not to worship images, or anything else besides God, and members of the Church do not. One should side with God and Moses and say that Exodus 20:3 does not mean that one cannot have pictures, statues, or images of earthly or heavenly things in one's home or in church. God is the revelator of the verses in question, and.It is claimed that the Church violates the Biblical command against "graven images" because it displays sculptures of Christ, statues of the angel Moroni on the spires of our temples, or paintings showing scriptural scenes, within temples, chapels, visitors' centers, and publications. info under CC BY 3.FAIR Answers Wiki Table of Contents Question: Does the Church violate the Biblical command against "graven images" by displays sculptures of Christ? Exodus 20:3-4 does not mean that one cannot have pictures, statues, or images of earthly or heavenly things in one's home or in church Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible. If a verse or topic does not belong, please contact us. Topics and verses are auto-generated from user searches. (Read More.)Ģ Chronicles 3:5-7 - And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. Psalms 115:4-8 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. Genesis 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.Įxodus 20:3 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Romans 11:4 - But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Isaiah 44:15 - Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. Isaiah 42:8 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.Įxodus 20:5 - 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 Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.Įxodus 20:1-26 - And God spake all these words, saying, (Read More.)Īcts 17:29 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.ĭeuteronomy 4:16-19 - Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Read More.)Įxodus 20:4-5 - 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: (Read More.) Exodus 20:4 - 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:
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