"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human
beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives
and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally
save their lives."
Tony Robbins
What is an image?
The dictionary defines it like this: A reproduction of the form of a
person or object, especially a sculptured likeness. If we consider
the act of how we make an image, the artist CAPTURES the essence of
the object and FREEZES that moment in a single lifeless object. The
image has the limitation of perspective and is an outward appearance
that goes against the very grain of everything the Messiah was
attempting to teach.
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Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they
are full of extortion and excess.
Rather then looking at images, we should be looking inside of
ourselves where the truth was written on our hearts from the very
beginning.
Gen 1:26 And Elohim said, =E2=80=9CLet Us make man in Our image=E2=80=A6
So what is it that we are doing when we practice
=E2=80=9Cidolatry=E2=80=9D =
and use
images in the practice of our wor****p? Now, I=E2=80=99ve already pointed
ou=
t
in my original post that it=E2=80=99s breaking the commandment and as
we=E2=
=80=99ve
seen, people will make up a dozen excuses not to obey the word.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim,
and the Word was Elohim.
The fact is we are taking an unlimited creator, capturing and by the
act destroying what it is that he is trying to teach us. Our creator
wanted us to avoid any image that was made by human hands because we
can=E2=80=99t make an infinite, all knowing image. Regardless of how
beautiful or highly regarded an image is, it=E2=80=99s death in
perspective,=
forever frozen in the constraints of perspective and that goes for
moving images also. It=E2=80=99s impossible to capture all perspectives
and=
place that inside the context of an image but we have something
better=E2=80=A6 WORDS.
Words are Power.
The universe ((uni) one (verse) spoken word) was created by words and
are unlimited in the capacity to deliver a message.
Gen 1:3 And Elohim said, =E2=80=9CLet light come to be,=E2=80=9D and light
c=
ame to
be.
For that reason, Elohim wrote the law and made it of such great
im****tance that it's the SECOND commandment. No other Elohim, No
images... think about what a priority that is given in the scheme of
the Torah, it's not a request, it's a command. It's a command because
an image will never bring you closer to him. No cross, No fish, No
image.. period!
Exo 20:4 =E2=80=9CYou do not make for yourself a carved image, or any
likene=
ss
No image or likeness.
He spoke it and it came to be and you also have this same power
instilled within your very being and when you learn to let go of false
and pagan images, you learn to look inside at the true image that is
on your heart.
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the
heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those
loving it eat its fruit.
When you understand that YOU have the power of life and death in your
own mouth and that you have been created in the image of the almighty
creator, you understand how outright ignorant it is to use any symbol.
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his
cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
Martin Luther
This wasn=E2=80=99t a blasphemous rant. It=E2=80=99s confirmed by
scripture =
that you
can=E2=80=99t look outside yourself and expect to find elohim.
Joh 10:34 =D7=99=D7=94=D7=95=D7=A9=D7=A2 answered them, =E2=80=9CIs it not
w=
ritten in your own Torah,
=E2=80=98I said, =E2=80=9CYou are elohim=E2=80=9D =E2=80=99?
You are the future you create by your own words and your own deeds,
actions and example and no image is going to help you understand that
except self image. Images are only going to LOCK you in, CONFINE your
imagination and keep you focused on OUTWARD appearances and not
looking at what is inside of YOU.
Mat 7:3 =E2=80=9CAnd why do you look at the splinter in your
brother=E2=80=
=99s eye,
but do not notice the plank in your own eye?
The entire message of the messiah was attempting to teach you to look
INSIDE YOURSELF! To be your own judge and take upon yourself the path
of righteousness and by YOUR example, lead others to the truth. If
you spend all your time trying to correct everybody else and the
mistake they make, your only going to end up being the object of
loathing. How many times have we seen it=E2=80=A6
You smoke, your going to hell. Your commiting adultery=E2=80=A6
You=E2=80=
=99re a
homo***ual=E2=80=A6 condemning everybody else instead of looking into the
re=
al
solution within themselves which is taking the log out of our eye so
that we see rightly. Until we learn that, you can have a million
images but they are all OUTWARD looking and we missed the entire
message, to LOOK INSIDE. Stop placing limitations on that which has NO
LIMITS.
"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the
results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same
results."
Tony Robbins
Christians always ask, What would Jesus Do? And this is the best
question to be asking. When you consider that he kept the Torah and
placed his faith in the Father and not some =E2=80=9Cunseen=E2=80=9D
image, =
you
realize that you had the answers all the time. You know the right
thing to do when you follow those words inscribed on your heart and in
scriptures already. You were created in his IMAGE and that=E2=80=99s the
ON=
LY
IMAGE you need to focus your attention on.
Shalom,
Snow
"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of
our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that
shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."
Tony Robbins
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