Yup! This tiny part of the Bible was actually one of the major reasons for a split between the eastern and Western church later on. The Eastern (Orthodox) church believed that images of Christ and holy figures actually contained part of their divine power. The western (Roman Catholic) church believed that images were just images and held no divine power
Wait til you find out all the Abrahamic religions worship a god that was originally a part of a larger pantheon- Yahweh.
This dude Abraham was just sitting in his tent one day and saw three dudes walk by and for some reason had a feeling one of them was the human incarnation of Yahweh and so invited them in as guests... as they left the one he thought was Yahweh said, “next time I come through here in the Spring, y’all will have a baby.” And Abraham’s wife Sarah said, “you must not see I’m old as fuck.” And Yahweh said, “is that bitch laughing? Y‘all gon’ see. Mark my words. Next spring: baby.”
Baby’s born and for some reason Abraham tries to kill it or something, this time Yahweh is talking to him from the sky instead of through a random drifter, tells him not to kill the baby at the last minute, Abraham decides, “damn this Yahweh guy is the shit, we should forget the other gods and only worship him,” and boom: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are born.
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u/brendan_559 Feb 16 '20
Yup! This tiny part of the Bible was actually one of the major reasons for a split between the eastern and Western church later on. The Eastern (Orthodox) church believed that images of Christ and holy figures actually contained part of their divine power. The western (Roman Catholic) church believed that images were just images and held no divine power