What makes them wrong is when people place hope, trust, expectation in the created picture or sculpture, etc. There is nothing inherently wrong with drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc. There are groups that carry the command to the extreme in one direction and other groups that totally disregard the command all together in the other direction. Yes most definitely avoid drawing/making pentagrams and the like as those things belong to the occult. The entire chapter of Isaiah 44 gives a pretty good explanation and picture of the meaning of the passage in Exodus 20 : 4. We live in the day of rest because of Jesus We don't have a Sabbath day, we have a Sabbath life. that's actually the day that God came to live with me and I him. The spirit would come upon people short term in the Old Testament days but didn't live in a constant relationship with them. People before the Holy Spirit being poured out on us did not have the Spirit living within them so they were still estranged from God. Ask him about things and receive nudging's from him off and on all day. Personally I carry on a close friend relationship with him all day/night every day. today we have the Holy Spirit living within us and are (or should be) involved with him every moment of our lives, not just one day. We were given the Sabbath as a day to focus on God and replenish our relationship with him. Wonder why?īecause when Jesus came he changed the commandments from physical laws to spiritual laws and placed them in our heads (or hearts as the Bible would put it) The sabbath is no longer a physical something to do on Friday night and Saturday day time, it is a total way of life. Thus, we should not make a cross as an object of worship or even as a means of worship, and we certainly should not bow down to such a graven image.Many use the Tanakh to rebuke etc., but the many Mentions of keeping the Sabbath Holy and set apart seem to be ignored. Nevertheless, the Scriptures nowhere teach us to erect the symbol of a cross as an aid to prayer or as a help to worshiping God. 10:38 and 16:24), which means a life of humility and suffering service and of denying oneself in submission to the will of God. Further, as Christians we are commanded to take up our cross and follow Jesus (Matt. 1:18) and he was determined to preach "Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Cor. Thus, the apostle Paul says the word of the cross is "the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor. The Word of God teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ has saved his people from their sin by his death on the cross, wherein he bore the curse due to them that they might be blessed. The death of Christ on the cross is an historical reality with deep theological and religious meaning. In fact, as summarized in the second commandment, to make worship depend on such an image is superstition and idolatry. Praying is neither tied to nor made more acceptable at the foot of the image of a cross. Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed: but God is to be worshiped everywhere, in spirit and truth as, in private families daily, and in secret, each one by himself so, more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly or willfully to be neglected, or forsaken, when God, by his Word or providence, calleth thereunto. The second commandment clearly forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word.įurther, the Confession of Faith also states (Chapter 21, Section 6): Thou shalt not make unto thee 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 hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments (Ex. We believe that this is a proper interpretation of the second commandment: The acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture. It is summarized in the following statement from the Westminster Confession of Faith (Chapter 21, Section 1), to which the OPC subscribes: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church is committed to what is known as the regulative principle of worship. Is this disobeying the Second Commandment? Answer QuestionI have seen people pray while kneeling before the image of the cross in church.
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