Second Commandment

doctrine · 9 episodes

188A is for Alphabet, Artist, and Ahab 8 Apr 2024 10:54¶ 28 “Another reason that hieroglyphics could not have been used for writing scripture is that originally, at least to a large extent, it was pictographic…” 11:14¶ 30 “God does not want to be represented in pictures. He communicates through language, and Jesus is the eternal Word of God, not the eternal…”

185The Law on Mount Sinai 18 Mar 2024 27:32¶ 96 “So that’s the first commandment. The second commandment turns to a different sort of idolatry. This is the idolatry of trying to imagine for…” 28:09¶ 98 “Exactly, because this is about making images, and there’s a couple ways you can do this. You can literally make an image. You can…” 28:46¶ 99 “In the ancient world they didn’t think that their gods really looked like bulls, mermen, Ibis-headed two-legged men or whatever. They knew that these…”

172Recommendations 14 Aug 2023 18:35¶ 69 “It says if everything that Christ had done since his resurrection were to be written down, I imagine it would fill all the books…” 20:22¶ 80 “That’s a very good point. My sympathies very much lie with the Reformed view of the second commandment. That’s what I’ve held to for…” 26:53¶ 99 “First of all, I agree with everything you both said, and I would take it further, but you’ve taken it far enough and I…”

155The Lord is There 30 Jan 2023 15:20¶ 45 “Harvey Cox says he comes to Sinai and realizes some of this. He realizes that this is Yahweh the Creator, speaking from outside of…” 16:32¶ 51 “I may have misinterpreted a remark, because he does remember the second commandment from his youth. That could be Jewish, but he gets it.…” 17:36¶ 53 “So in saying no made-up religions, no man-made value systems, he’s sweeping them away to make room for his value system, for his law.…”

148Through Fiery Trials 12 Dec 2022 22:10¶ 76 “The second commandment is, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image [that means an idol; it’s a technical term with a very…” 22:37¶ 77 “Secondly, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.” Those are two separate things, but they’re bound up together. In other…” 23:11¶ 82 “No, don’t make it because what you’re doing here is misrepresenting God.”

115The Idol State 25 Apr 2022 15:55¶ 50 “Yeah, we’re not worshiping it, we’re just venerating it.” It’s worship level 2, not worship level 1. But the second commandment forbids us not…” 21:53¶ 67 “Here’s the other thing. The second commandment is not primarily about bowing down to false gods. That was covered in the first commandment. Don’t…” 15:27¶ 48 “This is central to why God forbade idols, because once we see them we accept them as reality, and then we do the next…”

64The Next Generation 21 Mar 2021 35:06¶ 95 “Don’t do idols. Don’t do pictures. Don’t imagine what God is like. Don’t try to draw him. Don’t do pictures of Jesus, please. Don’t…” 35:44¶ 96 “The second commandment, like the second part of the covenant, is Christianity is word-centered. It is not image-centered. That doesn’t mean there’s not a…” 34:41¶ 94 “At first it might not be obvious what those things have in common, but they all have to do with how God has revealed…”

38Image and Word (part 2) 20 Sep 2020 4:19¶ 17 “But specifically if we look here, the words are “Don’t make any graven images, and don’t worship them, because I am God and I’m…” 4:43¶ 18 “There’s many, many implications that you can take from that, and any number of doctrines, but the regulative principle of worship in particular is…” 21:27¶ 81 “Don’t make pictures of God for religious purposes or any purposes, because you’re lying at that point. You’re distorting who God is. And don’t…”

37Image and Word (part 1) 13 Sep 2020 1:55¶ 9 “I suppose the first thing that we should note, out of many first things we could note, is that the first commandment has already…” 2:51¶ 13 “Then he expands into “any likeness or anything, anywhere you want to look in the universe,” any kind of physical representation. That’s the first…” 3:27¶ 15 “God further goes on and says that his contempt of idols extends to the third and fourth generation, presumably meaning that he will give…”