Deuteronomy 18
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
‘necromancer’ ( וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ אֶל־ הַמֵּתִֽים׃ ) = one who calls up the dead.
Deuteronomy 4 KJV
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Warning against Idolatry.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Acts 4
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
1 Timothy 2
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
John 6
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Doesn't this strike you as just a little bit fanatical? I mean, if we followed these verses, we wouldn't have any pictures of anything, or statues. Even the crazy Muslims use cameras and computers, which make images of people and beasts. I think it's obvious that we need to apply an interpretation to these verses -- a filter that explains their correct meaning -- just as the commandment "Do not kill" in the Ten Commandments actually means "Do not commit murder." So the commandments not to create images actually mean "Do not create images that you are going to worship as gods, thereby depriving me, your God, of your proper worship."
“let God be true, but every man a liar”
God seems to be very clear on the matter of graven images, and takes many opportunities to make it clear to us; we are not to make images and bow down to them.
Isaiah 44 KJV
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
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