THE SECOND COMMANDMENT – THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE – Exodus 20
By its very nature any religious image is false, being a lying, man-made, presentation of what is allegedly represented.
Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
By its very nature any religious image is false, being a lying, man-made, presentation of what is allegedly represented.
The arrogant and atheistic dictum of humanists to the effect that, modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values, deifies man himself and places within wicked and fallible men the source of all authority.
When man rejects miracles, he rejects God. The real essence of miracle, then, is the acknowledgment that God is at work.
The promise, it will be remembered (Genesis 12:1ff), envisioned a great posterity for Abraham; but many years passed during which he had no son. Passing over the incident involving Hagar, Abraham waited patiently for that which, according to all human reckoning, was impossible.
Christ came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and yet, “He took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross” (Colossians 2:14).
There are no less than eight legitimate meanings of the word Israel in the holy Bible.
A careful reading of Mark 3:28 and context reveals that the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is designated as “an eternal sin,” thus one of a class of sins that are called eternal and which are without forgiveness.