<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]I guess we will just have to agree to disagree for I see no way for an unregenerate man to keep the 2nd commandment</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>I didn't think our discussion centered around whether or not an unregenerate man could keep the 2nd commandment, but rather, could an unregenerate person respectfully act in a film depicting the earthly life of Jesus Christ. <br><br>Over all, I guess we will have to disagree. Personally, I see it as a misapplication of the 2nd commandment, because I do not think it is the least bit relevant in this case. I appreciate the quotations from the WCF and the Heidlberg Confessions, but honestly, I think they go a little too far in applying the second commandment in the manner they do. More than likely, the historical dissention from Roman Catholicism and all of their veneration of saints, icons and popery, is the reason these two confessions apply the 2nd command so broadly, that its application misses the true intent of what the 2nd commandment is stating. Though I respect their intentions, and their desire to protect the character of God, I believe they are adding to the law in their zeal. Compare the simple rendering given in Exodus and Deuteronomy, to how the framers of the WCF go beyond what God told Moses. Note further that God's issue is the "bowing down" to the image in worship. The WCF, like I stated, seems to have a beef (and rightly so) with the RCC they were fighting against at the time. In that instance, the images were there (and are still there) for the purposes of worship.<br><br>I will more than likely be one of the "millions" who catches this movie when it is released, but I have no intentions of worshipping the image of Jesus as portrayed in a film, nor do I think it is dishonoring (it most certainly isn't blasphemy) to the Lord as long a Mel is keeping with the biblical texts of Matthew and John, as he claims he is doing. <br><br>Fred

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