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Originally Posted by Dante
That sounds very spiritual and noble, but the fact remains you are a visual being that relies on your natural senses. Images trigger certain reactions. For example, when you see a STOP sign you are triggered to obey it (assuming you do). The cross, for me, triggers the memory of Christ's sacrificial death on the cross. Sure, I have the Holy Ghost, and I'm not reliant on a cross symbol to trigger my memories of Christ's death (because often I think of the crucifixion without seeing a cross), but at the same time I think it serves as a reminder for saints and sinners who need to be reminded of that great gospel story.
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Thou shalt not make unto the any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath , or that is in the water under the earth..Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that that me....
and let me add , "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"
What you have admitted , Dante is that you are carnal minded..The carnal mind is fleshly and natural ,..not spiritual ..wherefore, God is a Spirit and that that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.....
To depend on images to keep him in your mind or thoughts means that he is absent from your life..or he is not manifest enough to satisfy your desires for him...Actually Jesus requires a lot more attention than what we are giving him..maybe we are too busy or engaged in affairs of this life that consume our energies..
Remember that God requires our whole heart....
and speaking of jealous ...I'll tell you how Jealous I know God to be..
33 years ago when I first was being filled with the Holy Ghost...while the rivers were flowing and I was overwhelmed with incredible intense JOY , the thought came into my mind....." I gotta go tell my wife" ....and immediately the Spirit began to subside....( and I knew that I have messed up) because God had not finished with me...there was ans is more ..
Now at the end of a trail early this year The Holy Spirit spoke to me these words and when he spoke them I remembered that incident in the initial experience in the Holy Ghost....
He said.. " Thou shalt have no other gods before me..."
NOw baCK TO IMAGES ...
Jeremiah 10 :15 Every man is bruitish in his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image : for his molten image is falsehood , and there is no breath in them....they are vanity and the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish .
16. The portion of Jacob is not like them:
In verse 10 it says , "but the lord is the true God, he is the living God.."
All I have to really do is just point you to the Roman Catholics and all their errors from generation to generation...they've had these images passed on from one generation to the next..and we see a multitude of errors...
God is a Spirit , and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.....spirit is or comes from your breath..notice from one breath to the next we have the opportunity to praise
God and give glory to him..at an instant....no need of an image of any kind..
no need to be reminded if you are saved ...The baptism in the Holy Ghost is for me unforgettable ...
God has taken me by the hand and has put his word in my mouth..
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