Paul,

Where is the justification for not allowing divine attributes? By your person/attributes disctinction, the second commandment does not disallow depictions of an attribute, but a Person. I see no attribute language at all. I also wonder how that would have applied to the average Israelite, since he would have clearly understood every other command, but would have been forced to make a distinction based on philosophical categories (warranted ones, I believe) between Person and nature that were not resolved by the Church for 500 years. So was the average OT Israelite clueless, and was the average Christian without help for 500 years?

Oh, and what do we do about Theophanies? Could OT Jews then have depicted the man with Abraham, etc. If so, we did that NEVER occur?

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Fredrick T. Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
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