2006-12-14 10:27:10 · 7 answers · asked by jsjmlj 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The only image I worship is not made with hands.
"And He (Christ) is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn before all creation" (Colossians 1:15)
2006-12-14 10:32:37 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not have to look farther than your first answer. Everyone is not honest with themselves. Didn't the Jews fashion the Cherubim over the Ark? They will say that God told them to do that and they are right. The big no no for the images was because no one had been to Heaven yet and then now we have Jesus there. The veil was torn in half. Heaven can be represented now with other things because there are humans there. As far as everyone else goes, they practically all have Nativity sets that they use at Christmas time so if they are going to say it is just the Catholics they are wrong because they all use these things around this time of year.
2006-12-14 10:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. whether it's the star of david or the cross and angels. or a simple figurine of Jesus- like the nativity scene. And we can even say figurines of dolphins, bears, etc. b/c the commandment was no graven images of anything on earth, heaven, or below. of course, God was speaking more of worshipping the images. If you use them as reminders of God, then that's ok.
2006-12-14 10:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus junkie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. that is a good question. I never thought of that... star of david, cross, even the yin-yang symbol, Taosim, aztecs, zoroastrians, all the way back through history... Although we may not pray to the symbols directly, they are a symbol of that faith/philosophy and are shown on or with the person or place of that religion.
2006-12-14 10:41:34 · answer #4 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not in the Biblical sense.
God forbids the WORSHIP of carved idols. Many religions (my own included) have icons and paintings and statues that REPRESENT the Holy - but we do not worship them nor do we consider the IDOL itself to be Holy.
Hinduism DOES worship their idols, which makes them different from Christianity.
2006-12-14 10:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, islam has no graven images of god, or any of the prophets.
2006-12-14 11:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by deshi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
Judaism has no image of God.
in fact you are unlikely to find even non-abstract, non-profile paintings of people in a Synogogue or signifigantly observant home.
2006-12-14 10:32:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋