About Graven Images

[Ted L Glines]

If a Catholic or a Protestant or a Hindu or a Wiccan wants to venerate a statue or a cross or some beads or a pentagram or a gold chalice or a stinky pile of dog doo-doo -- what is that to me? All of these objects may have special arcane "meanings" for those who cherish them and sometimes even worship them. I have no need to care about what they venerate. All I need is God and Jesus and the path to Them is not through a bell or a book or a candle or a statue or an angel or through any other entertainments.

:angel::cheers::angel:​

 

[freelight]

The light behind the image

As far as 'worship' is concerned, images/statues/'murti'...are only aids for one's concentration upon that portal which opens one up to the infinite Deity, the living source or 'active agency'. Sacraments, ritual and regalia are fine, to enhance the worship experience, but it is always the spirit-reality and essence of the divine that is our joyful communion.

Om shanti,

pj