re: Pics: Defying Islamists, Giant Image of Mohammed Projected onto French Government Building

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That’s not the Prophet’s real picture is it?

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No. That is a famous Italian cook, famous for his sustainable pasta dishes. Anthony Boyardee.

RIP

Damn France look at you go! Good luck with that future suicide bombing at that building.

If your not supposed to make graven images of Mohammed, doesn’t it follow that therefore would be no images?

Ergo, how the frick do they know what the dude looked like anyway?...

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The reason being that the images could be considered idols and in violation of the "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" commandment

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wrong. people who cannot interpret scripture or who like to take out of context and cherry pick look silly all the time over this. The bible actually commanded man to make graven images. YOu just cannot make any of false GODS and worship those like pagans did.

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Let’s begin by looking very closely at the prohibition in Exodus 20 regarding the making of “graven images” and see if it actually says what many Protestants think it says. Exodus 20:2-5, “I am the Lord your God…You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a 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; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God…” This whole passage from Exodus 20 is all about the fact that there is one God we should worship. It begins with, “I am the Lord your God,” and ends with “I the Lord your God am (a jealous God).” The operative word is “I.” One. There is one God that the Israelites are to worship. Furthermore, the words that seem, to Protestants, to prohibit the making of a graven image or of any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth are proceeded by: “You shall have no other gods before Me,” and they are followed by: “…you shall not bow down to them or serve them.”

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Which means, given the context, this is not an absolute prohibition upon the Israelites against the making of graven images or any likeness of things in heaven or on earth, rather they are being prohibited from making such images and then turning around and worshipping them.

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In Numbers, 21:8-9, God commandsMoses to make a graven image: “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.’ So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.” So, not only are graven images not forbidden to be made, but God Himself commands the making of one! And, this graven image is used, by God, in a religious context, to heal those who had been bitten by serpents after they had grumbled against God. And, in the New Testament, this graven image is even seen as an Old Testament type of Christ: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life,” (John 3:14-15). The graven image of the serpent had a religious purpose!

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So, was the making of this graven image a bad thing? Obviously not. However, what happened to that same bronze serpent several hundred years later? 2 Kings 18:4 tells us that King Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent. Why? Because the people at that time had begun worshipping it as a god. So, as a graven image, there was no problem with it. As a graven image that the people were bowing down to and serving, there was a big problem. The scriptural principle we can take away from this is that graven images, or images of things in heaven or on earth are not, in and of themselves, bad things – even if they are used for religious purposes. It is when they are worshipped as gods that there is a problem.

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France will be fine.

Look back at the history of land grabs and holdings by France. They do just fine

Like what? Beheading someone?

Now I have seen everything in 2020. France having the biggest balls of them all.

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