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Bill
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Amazing grace!
May I humbly suggest Brothers and Sisters in Christ, that we stop using idolatrous images from Hollywood (or any pictures, images, drawings, film for that matter), in violation of the second commandment, as representations of our Lord and Saviour? Do we not know that this gives others (and even Christians) an image of the Lord that IS NOT TRUE? Do we need “visuals” to represent the LORD, to prove or emphasize what God has said in the bible?
There are many verses to show this sin for what it is, but these sum it up:
Deuteronomy 4:12-18
12 “Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form–only a voice.
13 “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
14 “The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.
15 “So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
16 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
A good article that expounds on this sin, which we Christians, particular in America, tend to overlook is Idolatry in the Evangelical Camp, By Richard Bennett (http://www.bereanbeacon.org/articles_pdf/idolatry_in_evangelical.pdf)
Amazing Grace…yes indeed, but this video clip does not show that… God’s word does.
Let us humbly ask ourselves are we sinning by promoting these images that suppose to represent the LORD of LORDs, and KING of KINGS. Ask the Lord to “search me”.
In fact Im amazed.
Lisa M –
I don’t believe representing Christ to tell the story of His life and ministry is idolatrous.
We know that Christ was a Jewish man in His 30′s and can have a pretty good idea
what He may have looked like and how He dressed. The verses you quote are Old
Testament and I believe they are referring to making idols(graven images) to represent God; a common practice it seems in those times. Not the same as representing Jesus
in a movie who we know walked the earth as a man. I do agree that God’s amazing grace
is revealed in His word.