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18861 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 249.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… the images to which homage is paid are symbolical representations of the true God or of the false divinities which have been made the objects of worship …
18862 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 249.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… lengths. Images were set up on the corn floors, in the wine vats, and behind the doors of private houses ( Isaiah 57:8; Hosea 9:1, 2 ); and to check this tendency the statute …
18863 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 250.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… graven images of Babylon had been abolished, the erecting of any idol had been sternly prohibited, and when the twin founders of the now world-renowned city …
18864 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 250.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… forbade image worship, yet in consequence of the alliance subsisting between Rome and Etruria in sacred things, matters were put in train for the ultimate …
18865 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 252.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… and images; so that every image has reference to its prototype, and no virtue is inherent in the image or in its material substance. So said all the enlightened …
18866 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 252.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… , that “images are laymen’s books,” and that the gospel is read by the unlearned in these visible types and representations of its history and founders. If this …
18867 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 253.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… that images were regarded by the heathens as means of “discovering to them the divine will, that they might acquire the knowledge of sacred things through …
18868 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 253.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… of images.... Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the virgin mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be had and to be retained particularly in temples, and …
18869 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 253.5 (General Conference of SDA)
She worships graven and molten images, and to justify the idolatry frequently omits the second commandment in her catechisms, and divides the tenth into two, in order to make up the number.
18870 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 254.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… oil, images, crucifixes, relics, and other material symbols and ritual acts, they one and all combine to take the place of Christ to the sinner, and keep him from …
18871 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 255.2 (General Conference of SDA)
Idolatry, Roman Catholic View of, and Defense of Adoration of Images.—Idolatry ... denotes divine worship given ... to any one or anything but the true God....
18872 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 255.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… of images practised in the Catholic Church, viz., that while the idolater credits the image he reverences with divinity or divine powers, the Catholic knows …
18873 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 255.6 (General Conference of SDA)
Images, Excluded from Churches in First Centuries.—The use of images was originally foreign to the worship and excluded from the churches of the Christians …
18874 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 255.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… of images had always been adopted by the church, there are abundant facts to prove that the actual worship of them was not indulged in until the fourth century …
18875 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 256.1 (General Conference of SDA)
Images, Worship of.—Next, let us take the worship of images and pictures. Here it must first be said (a) that the Roman Church in terms denies that any such act as …
18876 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 309.9 (General Conference of SDA)
He spoke, and that spiritual slumber of the race which seemed the image of death was broken up, and a movement commenced in the moral elements that has not ceased from that day to this, and never will cease.
18877 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 320.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… their image and superscription. In the Hellenism of Alexandria it played a great part, and was made by Philo a mediator between God and the universe, with a …
18878 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 351.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… . The image, or the symbol, of his god which the Brahman loves is to Mohammed but a shameful and empty idol, while the statue which the Buddhist reveres speaks …
18879 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 405.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… your image, which I had ordered to be brought for the purpose, together with the statues of the gods, and since besides they cursed Christ, not one of which things …
18880 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 460.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… the image of man’s innocence and peace, and the law of destruction did not pervade it ( Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:20 ); and if only we keep in mind that, before the fall …