To Exchange the Golden Calf of AI For the Living Word of God
May I then not make any image at all? God can not and may not be visibly portrayed in any way. Although creatures may be portrayed, yet God forbids making or having such images if one’s intention is to worship them or to serve God through them. But may not images be permitted in churches in place of books for the unlearned? No, I should not try to be wiser than God. God wants the Christian community instructed by the living preaching of his Word - not by idols that cannot even talk. Deuteronomy 4:15-16 — Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure Isaiah 40:18, 25 — O whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Acts 17:29 — Being th...
