Khalfan;2561392 said:
still talking about God riding cherub and wind wings ? or is it a different topic?
Not only that. There are many other ‘Poetic’ description of God and about people.
yes but first, this is Jewish Bible you are quoting from so poetic “blasphemy” is Jewish, and second, we Christians do not deny previous scriptures, neither did Jesus. You find it blasphemous because you are not used to this language when the Bible is full of such language. That was the language used thousands of years ago and nothing can change it. There are certain images used in each language. God riding a cherub, or the wind or the sea or what have you are images used , back then, to show God’s power, nothing less, nothing more. You can blame the Jewish poetic language and not us
Wow… thats something new. I don’t understand where are you know. You accept OT and reject the contents, becasue most of it imaginery, not true. Now the only question about OT is, how much is true, and how much is untrue. Then if we go further deep, if the writers were really writing about the true God, if the writers were really eligible to write it, would more helpful to understand the situation.
yea we know it is not true because we don’t have a real picture of Jesus so each people try to imagine how he looked like. What’s so bad in this?
Imagine, you are a child of 6 or 7 year old. You are reading the above verse of God riding the cherob or some similar activity of God, what will come to your mind? Most probably you will be picturising a Man like God who runs here and there and doing man like doings. That is what the picture you have in your mind and you grow up with that. the picture too gets bigger and bigger as you grow. Even after you learn God is a spirit, a shapeless form, you still imagine God in an old father man shape which is nothing morethan a lie. You do it with Jesus (pbuh) as well. The basic problem with it is, as far as you go imaginig God in your own mind and picturising as you like, you have lost originality of God somewhere in the begenning, and so now you know the picture or the imagination but not the original.
i don’t know if you are talking in reference to the Bible or not, but making statues is NOT forbidden. What is forbidden is believing that these statues are your god. Dunno of Hindus, but Christians do not consider a statue God. A statue/picture is simply a representation of someone you hold dear, or a religious symbol you put in church or home, just like God ordered Moses to makes 2 angelic statues in the Temple and Moses surely was no pagan. What matters is intention. Making pictures of animals, for educational purposes, is not haram in islam. Why if making animal pictures otherwise is bad? it’s intentions knowing that no monotheist is fool enough to worship an image.
That dearness creates the feel and affection towards the statue as it is a God. Why do pray infront of it? Becasue you see God in that image or statue. Why do you light candles near statues of Jesus (pbuh)? Becasue you feel the presence of God right there. Indeed, intention is what matters.
sorry but how does it make it different than you praying toward a black stone and kissing it or putting it’s picture at home?isn’t it a direction you follow? lol We don’t pray to a statue even if we are infront of it in the same way you dont pray to a black stone even if you are infront of it.
Becasue that stone or Kaaba doesn’t come to our mind at all for any reason. Thats not the case in Christianity. When you pray to Jesus (pbuh), Jesus (pbuh) do appear in your mind. We pray tawards Kaaba, becasue Mohamed (pbuh) parayed so and taught us to do so while praying. We kiss the stone becasue Mohamed (pbuh) kissed the stone, so we kiss the stone while go there. Now, did Jesus (pbuh) ever pray infront of any statue ever? No. Did Jesus (pbuh) ever wear cross on the neck? No. Did Jesus (pbuh) ever kiss a cross? No. Then who invented those?
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