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Does not make sense to me. The Book also says to love your enemies, not just love your neighbors. How does it make sense that murdering someone “in heart” puts one in danger of hell fire, name calling, yet literally murdering someone, is okay? “What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood ...

The two greatest commandments, love God, love neighbor. I don’t see how killing my neighbor is completely compatible with loving my neighbor. Seems like this would rank pretty high in “main things”. There is also the consideration to who is our neighbour according to Jesus. Jesus had a question put...

I'm going to put my faith and trust in Jesus and what He did to save me from my sins. To trust in some man's interpretation of the scriptures that adds to what salvation requires gets us into all kinds of determinations of who is saved and who isn't. I will settle for what Paul says is 'of first imp...

Yes and many old, especially Protestant churches, that have beautiful stained glass windows. Our downtown, Catholic, United, Presbyterian, Anglican and First Baptist church all have stained glass window paintings and I have always enjoyed these in my visits. As long as we are worshipping the God in...

My understanding of a “graven image” is a representation of a god which is worshipped. That's nice that that's your understanding. A lot of plain Anabaptists prefer to stick to simple readings of the text. The danger of simple readings is we can be simply wrong. I believe there are many 'conviction...

We just interpret the text simply when it says “make no graven images”. Exceptions abound for “business use”, which I personally find questionable. Ultimately, plain groups used to be strong in their convictions against the camera and the photograph - nowadays it is simply most Amish and some other...

I just have not run across anyone who worships a photo. I don't know other's hearts but what appears to me sometimes is one can cross that line into worship when we put anything ahead of God in our displays of worship. It is common in the Catholic Church. Not photos, but pictures. https://angelusne...

Sudsy, Can you identify any person who believes they are worshiping the statue? The image be it a picture or an icon? Can you find anyone who admits they worship something man made? What people admit to and what is actually going on in their hearts, where God looks, can be quite different. I believ...

It was only a few years ago that I became aware of some Anabaptists (and I'm not aware of any Christians who believe this outside of Anabaptism but perhaps there are) that resist taking photographs as a violation of one of the 10 commandments. So, I had to look closely at this text in Exodus 20:3-6....