tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post692858448005736011..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Evangelicals and Idols: a Reformed ResponseTurretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-28771733044343766722010-03-03T01:28:46.983+00:002010-03-03T01:28:46.983+00:00"1) doesn't the direct commandment of God..."1) doesn't the direct commandment of God to adorn the Holy Place with sacred images of golden Cherubim mean anything to your religion?"<br /><br />The ark was hidden from the view of all, except the high priest once a year. That once a year he was to be focused on worshiping the unseen God who dwelt between the Cherubim.<br /><br />"2) where was the Church between 1,000 AD Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-72187142201357273622010-03-02T22:39:54.620+00:002010-03-02T22:39:54.620+00:00Two simple questions:
1) doesn't the direct ...Two simple questions: <br /><br />1) doesn't the direct commandment of God to adorn the Holy Place with sacred images of golden Cherubim mean anything to your religion?<br /><br />2) where was the Church between 1,000 AD and 1,500 AD , since Iconoclasm has already died out by then?Luciannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-39117669752959365622010-02-22T17:04:46.287+00:002010-02-22T17:04:46.287+00:00Well, having been to all seven continents and hung...Well, having been to all seven continents and hung around with those dirty guys in their respective market places and those clean guys in the high places, I can realize quite quickly that what we need these days is for some earnest prayers going up to God asking for God to send a bunch more laborers into His present harvest fields.<br /><br />Maybe more earthquakes are in order?<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-87256792193455946452010-02-22T14:58:00.467+00:002010-02-22T14:58:00.467+00:00And ominously, it was the 8th century "iconod...And ominously, it was the 8th century "iconodules" who first explicitly propagated the idea that "THE BIBLE IS NOT ENOUGH" - the notion that the Scriptures are insufficient in matters of binding dogma and saving faith:<br /><br />http://www.archive.org/details/seventhgeneralc00mendgoog<br /><br />p. 13<br /><br />"*8. Anathema to those who reject the doctrine of the holy Viisaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682159289133730565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-22654916411464027662010-02-22T14:42:49.018+00:002010-02-22T14:42:49.018+00:00Again, the best and most thorough Protestant descr...Again, the best and most thorough Protestant description of the 8th and 9th century Iconoclast controversy that I myself have yet come across can be read online here:<br /><br />http://www.archive.org/details/seventhgeneralc00mendgoog<br /><br />This is not an intellectually dishonest work in the sense that it would try to make Byzantine and Carolingian anti-iconists look like modern Protestants,Viisaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682159289133730565noreply@blogger.com