Did you get your question answered at all? I hope so. What is your take on it, sir?


The LORD be with you.

I also am concerned with what comes to mind when we think of God, whether in prayer, worship, or any other time during our living hours. I read a book by John MacArthur several years ago entitled The Ultimate Priority In it Dr. MacArthur talks about "worship of the true God in a wrong way". This is a quotation taken directly from his book:

"There was no tangible representation of God-and that is true of God throughout the Scriptures. Why? Because God does not want to be reduced to any image.
If you think of God as an old man with a beard sitting in a chair-that's unacceptable. Idolatry does not begin with a sculpter's hammer, it begins in the mind. When we think of God, what should we visualize? Absolutely nothing. no visual conception of God could properly represent His eternal glory. That maybe why God is described as light. It is not possible to make a statue of light."

This may be a difficult principle to incorperate but I do understand where Dr. MacArthur is coming from.

THanks Andrew, those links are wonderful reads.

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Pergamum


"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

You're very welcome.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole