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The Backwoods Presbyterian on the Second Commandment
Benjamin P. Glaser, at The Backwoods Presbyterian has an interesting and informative series of articles on the subject: Images of the Godhead and the Second Commandment Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – What do the Magisterial Reformers Have to Say Concerning Images? Part 3 – What do the Magisterial Reformers Have to Say Concerning…
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Matthew Lankford – Great Start!
Matthew Lankford has recently started a blog, and he’s off to a great start, with an interesting post that provides a collection of articles on the Second Commandment, namely, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath, or in…
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John Murray on Pictures of Christ
As John Murray explains: The question of the propriety of pictorial representations of the Saviour is one that merits examination. It must be granted that the worship of Christ is central in our holy faith, and the thought of the Saviour must in every instance be accompanied with that reverence which belongs to his worship.…
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Problems Unlikely to Beset the Reformed Churches
How to react when God sends his lightening bolts against your graven images? Rio’s answer seems to be repair it: (link). Let’s hope that they get the message more quickly than the Philistines did! 1 Samuel 5 1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. 2When the Philistines…