Yes, eikōn. Icons and idols are different words. There is gigantic amount of support for icons. The iconoclasm discussion was finalized long ago. Just retarded kike JIDF shapeshifting Protestants, or butthurt Protestants since they have no apostolic claim pushes this retarded question.
God loves you and He wants you to come back to Him. I pray for you and and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to pray for my enemies. You can just make the choice and you will be my brother.
There aren't too many relevant verses in the NT, but there are some, mostly using the word eikōn to refer to Caesar on coins, etc.
Romans 1:22-23 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an eikōn made like to corruptible man...", in Colossions 1:15 it refers to Jesus as the eikōn of God, Revelation uses this word a bunch too Rev 15:2 "them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his eikōn, and over his mark..." Rev 19:20 "upon them which worshipped his eikōn", etc.
There are however plenty of relevant verses in the LXX OT, for example in Genesis 1:26 and 1:27, it does use eikōn (G1504) in the sense of "made man in his own image".
But there are also plenty of negative verses. For example, Deuteronomy 4:16 "ye corrupt yourselves and make you a eikōn", 2 Kings 11:18 "into the house of ball and brake it down; his altars and his eikōn", 2 Chronicles 33:7 "and he set a glyptón (sculpture), the eikōn which he had made", Daniel 3:14 "do not yet serve my gods, nor worship the golden eikōn which I have set up?"
Am I missing something?
I just find it troubling to see our devout brothers venerating icons and kissing their feet as they enter church.
Protestants are hilarious. Since you like to reference Bible verses, how about Acts 8:30-31? You need explanations of what it means. Get an Orthodox study Bible. You are not supposed to make up your own interpretations. The Church can tell you since you are new, and not even in the Church. We have many holy saints, like Saint Chrysostom, which I kiss the hand of his icon, and ask him to pray for me, who has given us many clarifications how the Bible is supposed to be interpreted. The Orthodox Church wrote the Bible, we are the ones who can tell you what it means, not me though, I am too new to the faith and I refer you to the Orthodox Study Bible again, or visit your local Orthodox Church and speak to a priest. I kiss baby Jesus feet's every Saturday Vigilija and Sunday Liturgy, and I do it with love for my Lord and saviour, and I say to him "Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner."
You remind me of the video I got shown the other day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPPjd30mPc
Yes, because God quite literally commanded the creation of Icons when He commanded the creation of the Ark and the Temple. Actually, if you go into any Catholic Church that hasnt been thoroughly defiled by modernism, you will see the exact same type of iconography that would have been present on the Ark and the Temple. The Ark was the pre-cursor for the tabernacle containing the Eucharist. No one was worshipping the Ark or the Cherubim's on it, they were worshipping God.
Yes, eikōn. Icons and idols are different words. There is gigantic amount of support for icons. The iconoclasm discussion was finalized long ago. Just retarded kike JIDF shapeshifting Protestants, or butthurt Protestants since they have no apostolic claim pushes this retarded question.
God loves you and He wants you to come back to Him. I pray for you and and I thank you for giving me the opportunity to pray for my enemies. You can just make the choice and you will be my brother.
Romans 1:22-23 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an eikōn made like to corruptible man...", in Colossions 1:15 it refers to Jesus as the eikōn of God, Revelation uses this word a bunch too Rev 15:2 "them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his eikōn, and over his mark..." Rev 19:20 "upon them which worshipped his eikōn", etc.
There are however plenty of relevant verses in the LXX OT, for example in Genesis 1:26 and 1:27, it does use eikōn (G1504) in the sense of "made man in his own image".
But there are also plenty of negative verses. For example, Deuteronomy 4:16 "ye corrupt yourselves and make you a eikōn", 2 Kings 11:18 "into the house of ball and brake it down; his altars and his eikōn", 2 Chronicles 33:7 "and he set a glyptón (sculpture), the eikōn which he had made", Daniel 3:14 "do not yet serve my gods, nor worship the golden eikōn which I have set up?"
Am I missing something?
I just find it troubling to see our devout brothers venerating icons and kissing their feet as they enter church.
You remind me of the video I got shown the other day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPPjd30mPc