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After many many moons of having them, one night two weeks ago, I received sudden 'inspiration' to remove all the icons of Jesus I have in every room.

I did it.

The strange thing is that, I was expecting some sort of emotional turmoil over it, but not at all. I don't even miss them! :o

I did the same thing in the office. All I have in the office now is a 'Jesus Never Fails' print and a crucifix. Oops! I took the crucifix down, also. There's a plain cross now.

I am very surprised that I have no twinges of regret or anything else.
 
Not that there is anything wrong with a crucifix.
 
stray bullet said:
Why on Earth would you take down icons?



I felt a very strong 'impression' or, 'leading' to take them down. So I did.

I don't think I need these things any longer. I'm not going to become a foaming-at-the-mouth iconoclast, or anything like that. I am just saying that, for me I no longer need them.

We live by faith, not by sight.
 
God didn't seem to have an issue with golden cherubs in temples... heck, I believe He commanded them of Moses.
 
All of them.

Even one like this?!? ;-)

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Scott said:
All of them.

Even one like this?!? ;-)

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Icons or pictures like this are not good...

For the following reasons...

No description of Jesus is given in the bible and no one knows what Christ looked like.

Pictures and statues of alleged saints and Jesus have led billions into idolatry.

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

The apostate Catholic church is a prime example of why we should not make icons for religious purposes.

They bow down and pray before their idols. They burn incense to them. It should be disgusting to a Christian. The numbness of the average Christian to idolatry is amazing...

Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them" (Deuteronomy 5:8-9,

God has forbidden the making of icons for the purpose of veneration and worship.

The stinking excuses and twisting of the scriptures to justify these abominable practices are legion...

Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent that Moses fashioned when the people began to venerate it.

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

Icons are not always evil but God was very specific in making sure that believers understood the dangers and made sure that we understood His extreme displeasure.

Paintings and statues of Christ and so called saints has led many into practicing what God has clearly forbidden.

God has contempt for those who practice these things.

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Nahum 1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Psalms 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalms 115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

Psalms 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

Psalms 115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

Psalms 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

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Hey BB, is it me or is that last picture missing half a leg. Secondly, I wonder if that priest/Pope in the picture is looking for it... :lol: .
 
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These are icons, also. For those of you unitiated in the classic languages, those are 'alpha' and 'omega'- akin to our A and Z.

In fact, every letter that has made up every post in this forum is an icon: that is to say, a symbol that points to something else. If we assign meaning to these symbols in certain combinations, such as if we assign the lettters h, o, l, and y to mean something that is reserved to God, we have created an icon which points to God.

I respect Steve's - or anyone's- choice to not use traditional picture icons. Of course, we know that the cross itself, bare or adorned with the image of the Savior in His Passion is most definitively an icon. We ourselves are icons, created in the image and likeness of God.

The principle to be avoided, in terms of idolatry, is seeking or serving somone other than He who has revealed Himself to the prophets and apostles.
 
"And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: [even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel." Exodus 25:17-22
 
Scott said:
Hey BB, is it me or is that last picture missing half a leg. Secondly, I wonder if that priest/Pope in the picture is looking for it... :lol: .

The leg is there. :lol: It is just hard to see.

Popes and their followers kneel down before the crucifix and pray to it or through it.

Their Jesus is perpetually on the cross. Our Jesus is resurrected and seated at the right hand of God. Their Jesus is depicted as a baby or child seated on mommy's lap. Our Jesus is a man.

We don't know what Jesus looked like and no description of Him is given to us...

The apostles nor the prophets would ever advocate such blasphemous and idolatrous practices.
 
bibleberean said:
Their Jesus is perpetually on the cross. Our Jesus is resurrected and seated at the right hand of God.

1COR 1:23 here are we preaching a crucified Christ; to the Jews an obstacle that they cannot get over, to the pagans madness,
 
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