On 19/12/2012 9:23 PM, Warp wrote:

>
> "Idols" is not the same thing as "icons". "Idol" is more like a false god.
>

True but Idol means:

A picture or object that people pray to as part of their religion. 
Cambridge Dictionary

An image or representation of a god used as an object of worship. Oxford 
Dictionary

Icon
a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically 
executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other 
Eastern Churches.

> OTOH, one of the 10 commandments forbids the creation and worshipping of
> carved images (ie. icons.) How do they reconcile this?

Is that not what I asked?
(I read an article about double negatives, the other day. So I will 
rephrase that. Although that sentence is not a double negative it might 
be confusing.)

That is what I asked.

> They dropped that
> particular commandment.

News to me.

> (The Roman church, which later split into the
> Catholic and Orthodox churches, dropped that commandment a long time ago
> because they wanted to use statues and paintings of biblical figures.

Then brought it back, then dropped it, then brought it back, then 
ignored it.

> There's no actual biblical justification for this, other than the Roman
> church declaring itself as the true representative of God, and therefore
> having the power to do such things.)
>

Well, I would not put money on that. I bet a pound to a penny someone 
can find something in the bible that says that it is okay. (And if not, 
dreamed that God spake unto him, that it was so.)

BTW I prefer graven image to carved image. It sounds nicer, to my ears.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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