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Daily Defense Podcast
#272 The Use of Religious Images - Jimmy Akin
Sep 29, 2023
Jimmy Akin, an expert in religious images, discusses the distinction between idols and religious images. He explores examples from the Old Testament where God commanded the creation of images for religious purposes. The podcast emphasizes how Christian art sees images of saints and Jesus as symbols, not idols.
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- The Ten Commandments prohibit making idols, not religious images.
- The religious use of images in the Old Testament was commanded by God.
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Religious use of images
The podcast discusses the religious use of images and clarifies that the Ten Commandments prohibit making idols, not religious images. Idols are objects falsely believed to be deities, and their use was common in paganism. However, not all religious use of images is idolatry. God Himself commanded the use of images in the Old Testament, such as the bronze serpent set on a pole to heal the Israelites from snake bites and the statues of cherubim in the ark of the covenant and the temple.
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