Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | Acts 17:29 "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 17:29 "So then, being God's children, we should not think that the Divine Nature (deity) is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination or skill of man. |
Bible Question: Why do Christians today pretend that this scripture does not apply to the pictures and statues others use today? Does it not say, not to even think of the divine nature this way? |
Bible Answer: P-J, What it says it not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, etc. It does not forbid us from having pictures or ornaments made of gold, silver or stone. The command is to not compare things made by man with the one who made man. However, I think we are committing sin should we worship, as God or in the place of God, these images which would violate the 1st and 2nd commandments. The 1st and 2nd commandments forbid our creating images for the purpose of worship. Sam Hughey |
Up | Down View Branch | ID# 2948 | ||
Questions and/or Subjects for Acts 17:29 | Author | ||
|
P-J | ||
|
Theophilus | ||
|
reformedreader | ||
|
hh141 | ||
|
Ray | ||
|
hh141 | ||
|
EdB |