- Is art sin?
- Is art worship or an idol?
- What is art?
- what is the Biblical definition of an idol and of worship?
Help me out with some ideas, sources, links. PLEASE!!
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- hmmm... that's actually pretty hard to define. I'm gonna go with dictionary.com's definition, here: the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
- idolatry= divine
worship given to an image
idol= object of idolatry
worship= the honor/adoration/reverence due to God alone
God forbids idolatry, not art (including statues). In fact, there are instances where he even commands the creation of religious art.
God told Moses to "make [a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live" Numbers 21:8–9
Ezekiel describes graven images in the idealized temple he was shown in a vision
"On the walls round about in the inner room and [on] the nave were carved likenesses of cherubim." Ezekiel 41:17–18
See also Exodus 25:18–20 and 1 Chronicles 28:18–19
When people start to worship a statue as a god, that's when the Lord becomes angry. People eventually did start to worship the bronze serpent as a snake-god, and the king had it destroyed (2 Kgs. 18:4).