(Faithful;43549)
Under which part of Deut 5:8Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: is ridiculous. Angels are in heaven and earth are they not? An image does not have to be worshipped or bowed down to. It says thous shalt not make any graven image, or any likeness that means no image to represent those things which are of God and heaven. I cannot find a way to allow for any image of likeness of angels to be acceptable. Faithful. xx:)
In Strong's concordance graven means: pecel peh'-sel; an idol:--carved (graven) image. It is talking about idols. Please when you quote scripture you can't quote out of context. Verse 5:8 goes with verse 5:9: Deu 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Deu 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Verse 9 talks about not worshiping these as idols or gods. These verses are not saying you can't do it but that you can't worship them. This is totally different. You are being legalistic if you only take verse 5:8 and don't read verse 5:9 which is the rest of the law on graven images.