The Truth of God’s Word is always spiritually balanced and spiritually practical. Both are the reaction of “the natural man,” who “cannot receive the things of the spirit.” The Muslims on the other hand, read scripture as you have taken it here in this e- mail, and go to the opposite extreme. There is nothing wrong with “the furniture in a Catholic Church”, but Catholics bow down to their images and in so doing declare how little they regard the Words of God. What He has done when we read the sum of His Word was to forbid men from making any graven images to bow down to them to worship them. I hope this makes it clear that God has never forbidden men from making graven images.
His mother’s name also Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.ĢKi 18:3 And he did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.ĢKi 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.ĢKi 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor that were before him. Num 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.ĢKi 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.ĢKi 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.
Num 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. Num 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. Num 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people and much people of Israel died. Num 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for no bread, neither water and our soul loatheth this light bread. Num 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. Later when the people began to worship the serpent God had King Hezekiah to destroy the copper serpent. He also commissioned Moses to make a copper image of a serpent for the people to look on to be saved when God sent serpents among the people. The Truth is that God Himself commissioned the building of the images in the tabernacle and in the temple. As a friend of mine put it, “It Does not say ‘Some of Thy Word is Truth, it says “The sum of Thy Word is Truth.” What He has prohibited is the making of images and bowing down to them in worship. God has never prohibited men from making images of anything. God did not simply say “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.” That by itself is what is know as a ‘half truth,’ and all half truths are lies. Here is that commandment:Įxo 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:Įxo 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 of them that hate me Now let’s look at the sum of this commandment and see if it says what you allude to. Psa 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. Your question gives me the opportunity to once again emphasize the truth of this verse of scripture:
I was wondering if you could explain to me why the furniture in the tabernacle was not a violation of ‘Do not make a graven image.’ Why would this be acceptable but the furniture in a catholic church be wrong?
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