Bronze Statue
Posted in Asian Antiques on 11/22/2009 12:22 pm by admin
Christ is "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (Col. 1:15). God could not be visualized in the Old Testament has given us an image of the divine human. The image as a method to focus your prayer to God, as a way of showing respect shares through bodily action.
Deut. 4:15 – according to this verse, Protestants say that since he saw "no way" the Lord, recorded images should not do it.
Deut. 4:16 – of course, in the early history of Israel is forbidden to make images of God, because God reveals himself visibly "in the form of a figure."
Deut. 4,17-19 – Then the Jews were depicted God not yet revealed who might be tempted to worship him as a beast birds, reptiles and fish, which was a common mistake of the day.
Exodus 3:2-3, Dan 7:9, Matt. 3:16, Mark 1:10, Luke 3:22, John 1:32, Acts 2:3 – later, however, we that God reveals in visible form (as a dove, fire, etc.).
Deut. 5:8 – God's command "You shall not make an idol" is totally related to the worship of false gods. God does not prohibit images to use in worship, but bans images of themselves to be worshiped.
Exodus 25:18-22, 26:1,31 – for example, God orders the making of an image of gold cherub. This image of heaven, of course, is worshiped by the Israelites. In Instead, the image has its mind to the supernatural, and attracts God.
Num 21:8-9 – God also orders the creation of the bronze serpent. The image of the snake Bronze is not an idol to be loved, but an article that raises the mind towards the supernatural.
I Kings 6:23-36, 7:27-39, 8:6-67 – Solomon's temple contains statues of cherubs, and images of cherubim, oxen and lions. God does not condemn these images have been used in worship.
2 Kings 18:4 – He is only when people began to worship the statue will incur the wrath of God and the king destroyed it. The injunction prohibits the use of images cut deals exclusively with the worship such false images.
1 Chronicles. 28:18-19 – David gave Solomon the plan of the altar of refined gold with images of cherubim of gold. These images were used to establish the most solemn of Jewish worship.
2 Chron. 3:7-14 – the house has doubled elaborate gold cherubs carved in wood and covered with gold.
Ez. 41:15 – Ezekiel describes the images recorded on the temple, which is carved portraits of cherubs. They are similar to images of angels and saints in many Catholic churches.
Col. 1:15 – the only image of God that Catholics worship is Jesus Christ who is the "image" (Greek "Eikon") of the invisible God.
David gave to Solomon, the "Plan for the altar of incense refined gold, and its weight, and also the plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this is clear from the wording of the hand the Lord in this, any work According to the plan "plan (1 CHR. 28:18-19). David for the temple that the biblical author tells us was" written by hand the Lord in all this, "included statues of angels.
During the invasion of serpents sent to punish the Israelites during the Exodus, God told Moses that "[a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it on a stick, and everything that is bitten, when he sees that he has to live. Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a stick, and if a snake bit a man, looked at the bronze serpent and live "(Numbers 21:8-9).
One must look at the bronze statue of the serpent to be healed, which shows that statues could use a ritual, not only as religious decoration.
Catholics use statues, paintings and other artistic devices to remind the person or thing represented. Like that helps to remember her mother, looking at his picture, if it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early church, have been particularly useful for instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school to teach children. The Catholics also use statues commemorating people and events, while Protestant churches have three-dimensional scene of the Nativity at Christmas.
If Protestants measure by the same rule, then these engravings "image", they are practicing idolatry "of those who accuse Catholics. But there Idolatry happens in these situations. God forbids the worship of images as gods, but does not prevent the image. If he had, are prohibited religious films, videos, photographs, paintings, and all those things. But, as the case of the bronze serpent shows, God does not defend even the use of religious ritual.
It's when people start to worship a statue of a god who is the Lord angry. So when people started to worship the bronze serpent as a snake-god (whom they called "Nehushtan"), the righteous king Hezekiah had destroyed (2 Kgs. 18:4).
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