Tim Mackie
👤 Speaker
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BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
The mountain's actually kind of scary.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
And so there is an impulse to try to actually access the creator of life, but to do it in a way that begins to minimize and reduce and contain.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
I think there's more to understand there.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
But if I could, can we pivot then?
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
Because all of a sudden he starts talking about the stars in the sky.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
Don't reduce Yahweh to any form.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
But then he says, and don't lift up your eyes to the skies and look at the sun and the moon and the stars, the host of heaven, and serve them or worship them.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
You're saying with this phrase, taking you out of the iron furnace, is a subtle way to say, guys, you are the image.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
And it's not a statue of humans.
BibleProject
2nd Commandment: No Idols
The living, breathing humans are God's image.