Again misunderstanding of the terms. Graven Images applies to the Pagan religions of the time with the statue in the "temples" being the gods. Remember this is the belief in the one true God who sent his only son Jesus for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity. We as humans are sinners so the humans running the organization are too.
the way a non catholic pastor who broke open his concordenc, there were graven images, carved idols from various material, which represented the household gods before abraham set forth on his journey.
in doing so he was supposed to have no other gods before him, those graven(carved/whittled/molded) images were of lesser beings and were not to be worshipped because he was a jealous god.
Before him translates as more important than the one God of Israel.. Right it doesn't mean we can't have representations /pictures...of God. Pictures are like what we have in our homes of our families....to remind us of our friends and family members. Statues and paintings are the same thing. We are not worshipping the image.
the whole part of "graven images" got tossed
Again misunderstanding of the terms. Graven Images applies to the Pagan religions of the time with the statue in the "temples" being the gods. Remember this is the belief in the one true God who sent his only son Jesus for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity. We as humans are sinners so the humans running the organization are too.
the way a non catholic pastor who broke open his concordenc, there were graven images, carved idols from various material, which represented the household gods before abraham set forth on his journey.
in doing so he was supposed to have no other gods before him, those graven(carved/whittled/molded) images were of lesser beings and were not to be worshipped because he was a jealous god.
Before him translates as more important than the one God of Israel.. Right it doesn't mean we can't have representations /pictures...of God. Pictures are like what we have in our homes of our families....to remind us of our friends and family members. Statues and paintings are the same thing. We are not worshipping the image.