Deep Thought
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Okay so it's time for me to ask another question since it's been awhile. This one is to people who think making statues and crucifixes and things like that go against scripture (iconoclasts).
You rely heavily on your interpretation of Deuteronomy 5:8 where it says that we shouldn't make any images "neither in the heavens or on the earth" to support your idea that it is wrong to do so.
However, in Exodus 26:1, etc. God orders his people to build a tabernacle that had a curtain and images of angles woven into it. Also in Exodus 25:10 etc. he ordered the Ark to be constructed. (See also Acts 7:44), and this involved making golden statues of angels (also Hebrews 9:1-5). Furthermore, in Num. 21:8–9 God commands Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a poll so if anyone was bitten by a snake they should come and look at it so that they would be cured.
I am simply curious how you explain these passages in the Old Testament without contradicting your strict interpretation of Deuteronomy?
You rely heavily on your interpretation of Deuteronomy 5:8 where it says that we shouldn't make any images "neither in the heavens or on the earth" to support your idea that it is wrong to do so.
However, in Exodus 26:1, etc. God orders his people to build a tabernacle that had a curtain and images of angles woven into it. Also in Exodus 25:10 etc. he ordered the Ark to be constructed. (See also Acts 7:44), and this involved making golden statues of angels (also Hebrews 9:1-5). Furthermore, in Num. 21:8–9 God commands Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a poll so if anyone was bitten by a snake they should come and look at it so that they would be cured.
I am simply curious how you explain these passages in the Old Testament without contradicting your strict interpretation of Deuteronomy?