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#703 - Gavin Ortlund on Icons (REBUTTED)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Biblical Principle of Respecting Symbols Is Not Idolatry

Jimmy Cevallos: I was very disappointed in this video by Gavin. His thinking was at times fundamentalistic. He did not thoughtfully engage with the concept of idolatry and what the biblical writers were actually condemning. It's entirely natural that we don't have records of icon veneration in the early church," he says. "It took centuries before Christianity was so firmly rooted"

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