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1. You shall not make any graven images full#
2. You shall not make any graven images registration#
3. You shall not make any graven images series#
4. You shall not make any graven images windows#

Then why do we not hire a demolition crew to come in here, and smash and remove all the images? Why are we doing everything we can to restore our beautiful stained glass windows and to protect our statuary? Because we believe and love JESUS – and we want everything around us to promote the worship of Christ, our Lord and our God. They make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them. They have hands, and handle not feet have they, and walk not neither speak they through their throat. They have ears, and hear not noses have they, and smell not. “They have mouths, and speak not eyes have they and see not. Idolatry is the replacement of God with something else, the work of human hands. Holy Scripture prohibits, in a strong voice beginning with Moses and running through the prophets, idolatry. God will not have anything become between ourselves and Him. Visitors sometimes come in and ask innocently, Why does this church have all these graven images? Doesn’t the Bible prohibit them?

You shall not make any graven images full#

Saint Thomas Church is full of images: stained glass windows depicting mysteries of the faith and saints of the Church statues of Christ, our Lady and the other heroes of the faith in the reredos behind the high altar images of Christ crucified and of the angels. Or: You shall not make for yourself any idol. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in the heaven above or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them. He is putting us on the level by showing what a living relationship with him means in terms of our thoughts, words, and deeds. In the first two sermons in this series, we heard truly that God, in giving us the Ten Words of Life (The Commandments), gives us Good News. In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.

You shall not make any graven images registration#

You shall not make any graven images series#

Some Orthodox writers talk about icons as representations of salvation history and the saints, while others talk about icons as a way to have a mystical encounter with the saints. (Aside: I'm not saying I agree with everything at this link. St John of Damascus (whom we Lutherans might know because of his hymns "The Day of Resurrection" and "Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain") said that we can make graven images now. But a friend's blog yesterday mentioned something from the 700's. That was the only response I ever had for the iconoclasts (the people who disapprove of crucifixes, icons, stained glass windows in churches, and creches at Christmastime). Still, we say of the photo, "That's my dad." He's a flesh-and-blood person who begat me and taught me to bowl and ate supper with me. Just like you and I know that my dad is not an arrangement of electricity and pixels on a computer screen. They knew he meant that it depicted his God. Those Wiccans knew that Pastor Wiest didn't think that the little piece of metal hanging over his heart was, itself, his god. This is the true God."Ī friend asked once, "Who is the man in the picture with you, on the sidebar of your blog?" I told him, "That's my dad." That's what he expected me to say. One of them, having been raised Christian, knew the passage from the ten commandments (Exodus 20) about not making "graven images." The gals asked if his crucifix wasn't a graven image and wondered how that fit with the prohibition against worshiping false gods. They had noticed his funny-lookin' pastor-clothes, and so they asked him about his crucifix and what he believed. Pastor Wiest told the story of chatting with a few Wiccans one day.