April 22, 2018 ·

No Graven Images: The Forbidden Arts

“The Jewish faith fully declared an end to the age of idols. God has no form. God can't be captured. He can't be contained. Even the word Yahweh is honoured by the Jewish scribes. Once the pen of a Jewish scribe wrote the word Yahweh, they'd throw the pen out, because the pen could do no greater thing ever again in its life. The word itself wasn't to be spoken aloud. Honour God by not taking his name in vain and by not worshipping idols, because people are prone to idolatry. This was the early church, and it was very worried about this. The pictures started to become things that people worshipped. This is why we had iconoclasm in the Reformation. The icons of saints had become objects of adoration. We saw this as far back as the third century. It's easy to start to treat physical things like they're magical. Even in the cross — holding my cross, I touch my cross. These items become magical to people.”