His false Calvinistic iconoclasm has been drilled into his brain.
It is right to warn people against the sin of idolatry when they are committing it. But calling Catholics idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints is based on misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and uses (both good and bad) of statues.
That sums up Job: misunderstanding or ignorance. In his cas it's both.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, makes the blanket statement, "God has forbidden the use of images in worship" (281). Yet if people were to "search the scriptures" (cf. John 5:39), they would find the opposite is true. God forbade the worship of statues, but he did not forbid the religious use of statues. Instead, he actually commanded their use in religious contexts!
I'm wondering if Job has been infected by Loraine Boettner's lies.
People who oppose religious statuary forget about the many passages where the Lord commands the making of statues. For example: Exodus 25:18–20.
Job should correct God.
1 Chronicles 28:18–19 David’s plan for the temple, which the biblical author tells us was "by the writing of the hand of the Lord concerning it all," included statues of angels.
Job should correct David.
Ezekiel 41:17–18
According to Job, Ezekiel is an idolatror.
Numbers 21:8–9
According to Job, Moses worshiped a bronze serpent.
Exodus 33:9-11 2 Chronicles 7:1-4
According to Job's perverse thinking, they were worshiping a cloud and fire. I say they were worshiping God *through* those images. If not, then the Bible wouldn't have presented these things positively. They would have been condemned as idolatry. But they were not. Does Job?
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate.
According to Job, recall = worship. ...misunderstanding and ignorance.
In all my years, I've never seen any Catholic worship a statue or painting. The charge is part of anti-Catholic bigotry and "Bible Christian" hate.
Idolatry (biblically defined) is a matter of the heart. It isn't just a matter of plaster and wood. Idolatry requires one to be substituting any created thing for God Himself. Using something as a visual or devotional aid is not *necessarily* or always doing that. One is worshiping God by means of the visual aid.
For a crucifix (for example) to be "idolatry" (as Job may hold) one would have to believe the hyper-ridiculous thing that a piece of plaster is
1) actually God, or a god;
and
2) meant to replace the one true God as a substitute (an idol).
I submit that virtually no Christian in the history of the world who knows ANYTHING about the faith has ever done such a silly thing. They're obviously worshiping Jesus (God) by means of the visual aid.
Notice how Job avoids the biblical definition of an idol.
Bashing Alphonsus Liguori is another favorite pastime for ignorant hateful bigots.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori: Mary-Worshiper & Idolater?
Job may deny being a Calvinist, but he sure follows his teachings. Calvin was a psychotic iconoclast that infected much of Protestantism.
An "idol" according to Job
of John Calvin
who destroyed statues, priceless works of art,
organs, stained glass, and just about any physical object.
John Calvin: Capital Punishment for "Heretics" (Anabaptists, Etc.)
It is right to warn people against the sin of idolatry when they are committing it. But calling Catholics idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints is based on misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and uses (both good and bad) of statues.
That sums up Job: misunderstanding or ignorance. In his cas it's both.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, makes the blanket statement, "God has forbidden the use of images in worship" (281). Yet if people were to "search the scriptures" (cf. John 5:39), they would find the opposite is true. God forbade the worship of statues, but he did not forbid the religious use of statues. Instead, he actually commanded their use in religious contexts!
I'm wondering if Job has been infected by Loraine Boettner's lies.
People who oppose religious statuary forget about the many passages where the Lord commands the making of statues. For example: Exodus 25:18–20.
Job should correct God.
1 Chronicles 28:18–19 David’s plan for the temple, which the biblical author tells us was "by the writing of the hand of the Lord concerning it all," included statues of angels.
Job should correct David.
Ezekiel 41:17–18
According to Job, Ezekiel is an idolatror.
Numbers 21:8–9
According to Job, Moses worshiped a bronze serpent.
Exodus 33:9-11 2 Chronicles 7:1-4
According to Job's perverse thinking, they were worshiping a cloud and fire. I say they were worshiping God *through* those images. If not, then the Bible wouldn't have presented these things positively. They would have been condemned as idolatry. But they were not. Does Job?
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate.
According to Job, recall = worship. ...misunderstanding and ignorance.
In all my years, I've never seen any Catholic worship a statue or painting. The charge is part of anti-Catholic bigotry and "Bible Christian" hate.
Idolatry (biblically defined) is a matter of the heart. It isn't just a matter of plaster and wood. Idolatry requires one to be substituting any created thing for God Himself. Using something as a visual or devotional aid is not *necessarily* or always doing that. One is worshiping God by means of the visual aid.
For a crucifix (for example) to be "idolatry" (as Job may hold) one would have to believe the hyper-ridiculous thing that a piece of plaster is
1) actually God, or a god;
and
2) meant to replace the one true God as a substitute (an idol).
I submit that virtually no Christian in the history of the world who knows ANYTHING about the faith has ever done such a silly thing. They're obviously worshiping Jesus (God) by means of the visual aid.
Notice how Job avoids the biblical definition of an idol.
This is the most idiotic statement I have seen in some time.
Bashing Alphonsus Liguori is another favorite pastime for ignorant hateful bigots.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori: Mary-Worshiper & Idolater?
Job may deny being a Calvinist, but he sure follows his teachings. Calvin was a psychotic iconoclast that infected much of Protestantism.
An "idol" according to Job of John Calvin
who destroyed statues, priceless works of art,
organs, stained glass, and just about any physical object.
John Calvin: Capital Punishment for "Heretics" (Anabaptists, Etc.)
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