Graven Images And Catholicism. The church forbids us to worship anyone else:. in accordance to the bible the catholic church does forbid the worship of statues.
so you’re saying, tim, that when god said, “do not make graven images,” he wasn’t saying, “do not make images of any kind,” because he later commanded. a graven image is an image carved out of stone, wood, or metal. The bible tells us not to worship graven images yet catholics have.
Catholic Silent Crusade 47. GRAVEN IMAGES
by combining together deut. those who hold to the position of accepting images and pictures of christ as “harmless” do so with little effort. I am not a catholic christian and yet it is obvious to me that the catholic congregations are simply using symbols. in these passages, yahuweh’s definition of a ‘graven image’ is simply ‘an image or likeness’ of any living creature.
