Is a cross a “graven image”? Are religious pictures “graven images” or “any likeness”? For biblical studies on these subjects, see our articles “ Is It Okay to Wear a Cross? Why or Why Not?” “ What Did and Didn’t Jesus Look Like?” and “ Where Did the Popular Image of Jesus Come From?” We are not to use statues, pictures, jewelry or anything else to represent God or as a physical aid in worshipping Him.
Nothing we can make can compare with Almighty God-human handiwork would only give us a false image of the true God. God commands us not to make idols or any representation of Him. This also fit within the meaning of the Second Commandment (Deuteronomy 27:15). A different Hebrew word ( maccekah) more specifically applied to a metal image, called a “molten image” (KJV) or a “molded image” (NKJV). In passages like Isaiah 44:15 it referred to an idol carved from wood, but it was also used of metal images as in Isaiah 44:10.
It is translated from the Hebrew word pecel, This meant a carved image or idol. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exodus 20:4).īut what is a graven image? The New King James Version translates it “carved image,” and many modern English versions use the word idol. The venerable King James Version used older wording that many still hear quoted today: For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” What is a graven image?
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image-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 nor serve them. The Second Commandment against idolatry is recorded in Exodus 20:4-6:
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