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 10/28/11 10:51 AM |
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Thirdle wrote:
BTW Is there a CCC which provides RCC/Vatican authority to reject the 2nd Commandment (graven images)?? How its done;
CCC 2130 Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim.CCC 2131 Basing itself on the mystery of the incarnate Word, the seventh ecumenical council at Nicaea (787) justified against the iconoclasts the veneration of icons - of Christ, but also of the Mother of God, the angels, and all the saints. By becoming incarnate, the Son of God introduced a new "economy" of images. CCC 2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it." The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone: (Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, ... The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is) RC Sleight of hand |
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