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 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.