Veneration of images
185The Law on Mount Sinai
18 Mar 2024
29:21¶ 100
“So later on we see Constantinople and Rome defending icons and images with those very arguments – “It’s comforting. Everybody does it. We show…”
29:44¶ 101
“These, by the way, are the defenses given at the 7th so-called Ecumenical Council, the last council of Nicaea, for the use of icons…”
32:26¶ 116
“But it seems like in all of these different places, even in the Western and Eastern churches as they started to defend physical objects,…”
115The Idol State
25 Apr 2022
15:52¶ 49
“We can use a different word, like veneration.”
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…”
14:57¶ 47
“The bull was the expensive sacrifice. It was the sacrifice for the nation or for the priest or for somebody really important. If you…”
37Image and Word (part 1)
13 Sep 2020
15:58¶ 51
“Okay, but that’s been the logic of paganism from the beginning. It’s embarrassing when some strains of supposed Christianity come in and use that…”
16:28¶ 53
“That is exactly how idols were used. You just admitted you have an idol, and that you should not know that is staggering.”
16:36¶ 54
“It seems like they’re trying to make some kind of distinction between an idol pointing to something behind them, and the idol actually being…”