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Originally Posted by Beoga  I do not believe that we should make any sort of image of Christ or God (much to the dismay of my friends since I won't go and see Evan Almighty). One of the verses that I believe support this is the Second Commandment:
Exodus 20:
4"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, (ESV)
However, in looking at these verses, it seems to me that if we were to use this passage in support of the idea that we should not make any sort of image of God, that we would have to believe that any sort of art is not allowed. This is because it says that we should not make images out of anything in Heaven or on Earth.
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Hi, Mr. Vandenburg. Keep in mind that God never commands to do what He has also said is sinful. We know that God commanded His people to fashion certain things that appeared to be creatures, etc. Thus, we cannot say that the Second Commandment is forbidding the creation of
any images; rather, we must say that, in light of the whole of Scripture, He is forbidding the creation of any images which are intended to portray, reprsent, etc. the Lord God. Why? Because those things cannot
possibly, nor adequately, nor fully, nor completely, encompass the full attributes of God Almighty.