If a church have pictures Or graven images of Jesus is it disobedient children of God's word?

Question

PLEASE GIVE SCRIPTURE BACKING YOUR ANSWER

Answer 1

YES. Whenever a divinity is pictured, worship shifts from the divinity to the image itself. Any church where Jesus is portrayed is practicing idolatory.

Answer 2

Do you have pictures of your loved ones?

Statues and pictures of people we love are not idols.

Statues and paintings of Jesus and the saints are just like pictures of the people we love and respect.

The King James Version of the Bible states in 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"

Why were the Jews commanded not to make graven images? Graven images were the standard method of pagan worship. They were representations of false gods.

This is a very clear command.

However God commanded the Jews in Exodus 25:18 and 1 Chronicles 28:18–19, "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them"

And in 1 Kings chapter 7 Solomon made bulls and other images out of precious metals.

It seems obvious that the Jews did not worship the cherubims and Solomon did not worship the bulls he had made. These images did not violate the command of God. Therefore, an image not made for worship is acceptable.

In Numbers 21:8-9, "And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover." Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered."

And in John 3:14-15, Jesus says in correlation, "And just as Moses lifted up the [image of a] serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

How can a statue of our Lord Jesus Christ dead on the cross be considered an idol to a false god? A crucifix is the message of the Gospel without words held up for all to see, a visual reminder of the sacrifice of Jesus, no different from a painting, a play, or a movie.

Christians do not worship statues but the almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Disobediant?? Humm, well if you are not going by the word then your are NOT obeying it so therefore yes it is called disobediance. For it tells us that His hair was white like wool and yet we often see pics of Him have brown wavy hair with pretty brown eyes.


Revelation 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

This is the only record we have in Scripture of the physical appearance of Christ. The Gospel writers give much information about His words and deeds, but not His appearance while here on earth. Thus He can be identified not as of any particular race or stature, but merely as the Son of Man, representing all men before His Father.

Answer 4

Churchianity is a heathen religion. Even if it does not,have graven images, if it calls the Messiah YAHOSHUA by the heathen name "Jesus" in defiance of Ex 23:13, I would leave in a hurry, as we are supposed to leave such confusion. Rev 18:4. The Creator set aside a special day for rest and worship. It is the Seventh day (yes, that is "Saturday") We worship by our obedience (or lack of it) Gen 2:3

Answer 5

Since Jesus is himself an image of a heavenly thing, he is in violation of his own commandment.

Once God revealed himself in this way, and especially after Jesus died on the cross and fulfilled all that was written about him, the old prohibition against images was dissolved, along with all the old laws.

Mat 5:18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law,
TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.
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Jesus fulfilled all things when he died on the cross and rose again.

The Gospel of Matthew spends considerable time listing all the fulfillments.

In Luke, the risen Jesus explains it completely:

Luk 24:44 And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luk 24:45 Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.
Luk 24:46 And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead, the third day:
Luk 24:47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luk 24:48 And you are witnesses of these things.

In the 8th century, the church officially decided that statues and images of Jesus and the saints did not constitute idol worship, but they were in fact useful for teaching, meditation, and other good purposes.

Under the biblical authority Jesus gave to his church, this is a legitimate finding.

Mat 18:18 Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.

Answer 6

Images are great for propaganda purposes, something the Nazis understood well. In a similar vein, the success of Christianity as compared to Judaism was largely due to the ability of the Church leaders to manipulate the Sheeple with images of Geebus.

Answer 7

No, it is not against the law to have pictures of your relatives.