I guess this begs the question… was this one of the things that changed when Christ fulfilled the OT?
Absolutely not. These artifacts break one of the 10 commandments.
Okay, I guess what I’m asking then, is what determines if something is definitifely evil? If someone used a knife to kill someone else? Or to defend themselves and kills someone accidentally? An antique gun from a war? Money from an illegal scam? A music video with foul language and sex scenes? Pieces of debris from the World Trade Center?
Any object that has been worshiped instead of worshiping God, is evil. The Bible tells us that we are not to make any object that resembles anything in heaven or earth, and then bow down to it.I believe that Snerticus was right, this is OT stuff. Today we know that an object in and of itself is not evil, it is the use it was put to that is evil. Back in the OT many actually believed the object itself had life. Even in the NT most had given up on that belief as I believe Paul pointed out when he said that “we all know that there is no life in an idol”. Today any of those objects are preserved as museum pieces. As far as making a object of anything of heaven or earth, the importance there is not to worship it. If we weren’t to make an image of anything God did a poor job of following his own commandment when he had cherubim put on top of the Ark and he ordered idols of bulls and images of palm trees for the temple.
Treasures of the earth are often worshiped by individuals (ie. stored up wealth), but this type of worship is the opposite of charity, and is a different kind of evil. Those that store up wealth, and refuse to help others less fortunate, are in the same kind of danger of losing their soul, as idolaters (It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter heaven.).
I suppose that any decision that we make that breaks the commandment given unto us by Jesus, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” implies some other form of worship other than the Word. A physical object is not always necessary.
God does not sin. What He commands, is righteous, and is for His glorification. Idolatry refers to the assumption that objects have life, or represent another being, that has power equal to or greater than God Himself. In the case of the Ark and temple, these objects were decorations, rather than something to be worshiped instead of God Himself.Well that’s fine if that’s what you want to believe. But remember, if your going to put yourself under the law of the OT you cannot pick and choose. You will be under the entire OT law. So you will be forbidden to eat certain animals, certainly no pork, do animal sacrifices, circumcise your young, your wife after childbirth will be unclean for seven days if a boy and 14 days if a girl, well you get the picture. We are under the New Covenant not the Old. If you want to live under the Old that’s your choice but don’t be a hypocrite and obey one or two laws, you must obey all of them. Sure you want to do that?
I refuse to believe that God has changed His Word concerning the destuction of idols (and any other objects used in the worship of idols). These objects are defiled. His commandments are at the centre of Christian beliefs.
What has this got to do with the 10 commandments? The above items that you mentioned, are specifically changed, per the NT scripture. So that passage is inapplicable to them.
Treasures of the earth are often worshiped by individuals (ie. stored up wealth), but this type of worship is the opposite of charity, and is a different kind of evil. Those that store up wealth, and refuse to help others less fortunate, are in the same kind of danger of losing their soul, as idolaters (It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter heaven.).
I suppose that any decision that we make that breaks the commandment given unto us by Jesus, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” implies some other form of worship other than the Word. A physical object is not always necessary.
Then you should destroy your currency:
I agree. Just because one person has taken a liking to a religious object’s aesthetic qualities does not mean he worships the object itself. He just has a taste for art and likes how the object looks.
Who worships the image of a person engraved on money? People may worship ‘money’ though. (It also comes to mind, “Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s”…LOL). 
