Schaeffer deals with this question in his excellent little booklet Art & The Bible he points to the God's commands in Deuteronomy and Numbers as an explanation. God commanded the Israelites to make figures of oxen, (BibleGateway.com - PassageLookup: 1 Kings 7:25; 2 Chronicles 4:4; Jeremiah 52:20) pomegranates, (BibleGateway.com - PassageLookup: Exodus 28:33,34;39:24 BibleGateway.com - PassageLookup: 1 Kings 7:18,20,42; Jeremiah 52:22,23) plants, and many other living things (BibleGateway.com - PassageLookup: 1 Kings 6:18,29,32,35; Psalms 74:6)
(BibleGateway.com - PassageLookup: Exodus 25:33,34;37:19,20) when constructing the tabernacle. Clearly we are not to ever picture God, but picturing other living things (as long as we do not fall into worship) is encouraged in Scripture.
Ben Franks
I'm a member of Heartland Community Church (PCA) in Wichita, Kansas.
I'm currently a student at Whitefield College majoring in Christian Classical Education.
I'm hoping to attend PRTS and pursue the Gospel Ministry either in the US or the UK.
"Remember, it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul...It is not he that reads most , but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian." - Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
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