![]() “His face was distinctly Jewish, yes, Jewish, yet it was universal. Here is something Victor wrote about the face of Jesus Christ as he saw Him in a dream from God: While it is acceptable to men, God’s calling requires more. So you fall short of Him, which is unacceptable to Him. You are making an image of God from your own conception of Him, which is not Him. ![]() People will say that they do not bow down to the images, as a way to justify having them, but in effect they are bowing down to them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate Me” (Exodus 20:4-5). You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. “You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Yes, I was speaking of pictures of Jesus on your web site regarding the commandment not to make images. A letter to Margaret, who had images of Christ on her website: Herein you will find instruction in the Way, which is Christ. Despite, or because of, all the rationales that are given for having and using religious images, there remains much confusion on this matter about what God meant by His commandment, how it is to be applied, and what is the right, prosperous, and only way to life. Today, thousands of years after the second commandment was given at Mount Sinai, these images are common, even ubiquitous. ![]() There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he’s doing God a favor” (John 16:2 The Message).įor this writing I have collected portions from various letters that Victor and I have written to people about God’s prohibition of religious images. “They are going to throw you out of the meeting places. These idolaters further demonstrate their contradiction as they kill (whether physically or metaphorically), in the Name of God, His servants, the brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ who shine the light on their sins. Instead there is outrage at those who speak according to the Law of God. Neither is there any sense of shame on the part of many religious offenders when such a brazen sin as the making of images is brought to light. It is an amazing thing how the carnal man will justify what God prohibits, even, and particularly, using His Name to do so. Let us ask a simple question: Why do you want images and likenesses? See what your answer is, and see if it is justified according to all the wording of the second commandment as stated in a non-Catholic Bible? For his molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them” (Jeremiah 51:17). “Every man is brutish in knowledge every refiner is put to shame by idols. “What profit is the pictured image to its maker? And as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?” (Habakkuk 2:18 Bible in Basic English)
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