10/28/2023 0 Comments Picture of a bible inside a person![]() ![]() “Flee from idolatry.”- 1 Corinthians 10:14. The fact that such images were in the catacombs merely shows that by the third century, nominal Christians had adopted the pagan custom of using images, likely to attract converts. Therefore, what the New Catholic Encyclopedia calls “early Christian worship” is not the earliest Christian worship-that which was practiced by first-century disciples and described in the Christian Greek Scriptures, commonly known as the New Testament. That was some 200 years after Jesus died. The oldest images found in these catacombs-underground passages used as burial places-date back only to the third century. Even mythological figures adorn the holy chambers of sacred worship and burial.” * WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW “The Christian catacombs are veritable galleries of early Christian art. . . This human sin resulted in the distortion of the image of God in humanity, the. “The use of images in early Christian worship cannot now be reasonably questioned,” says the New Catholic Encyclopedia. people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. “The early Christians would have looked with horror at the bare suggestion of placing images in the churches, and would have considered bowing down or praying before them as nothing less than idolatry.”- History of the Christian Church A COMMON CLAIM Quit touching the unclean thing.”- 2 Corinthians 6:16, 17. “What agreement does God’s temple have with idols?. “I give my glory to no one else,” God said through the prophet Isaiah, “nor my praise to graven images.”- Isaiah 42:8. In fact, nowhere in the Bible do we read of a faithful Israelite using an image for worship. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOWĬontrary to what the New Catholic Encyclopedia asserts, faithful Jews did not venerate any of the engravings or figures associated with the temple. The veneration of images is consistently condemned in the Hebrew Scriptures, commonly known as the Old Testament A COMMON CLAIMĪccording to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the Jews had an abundance of images associated with their worship “and these representations were honored, reverenced, and venerated.” * As examples, that encyclopedia cites the numerous engravings of fruits, flowers, and animals that adorned the temple in Jerusalem.- 1 Kings 6:18 7:36. ![]() You must not bow down to them nor be enticed to serve them.”- Exodus 20:4, 5. “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
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