As a good Baptist, I didn’t have anything to do with religious images growing up. We had no images in our place of worship, not even a cross. I think we were afraid that we might violate the “graven image” commandment (Exodus 20:4, KJV). When I was a student at Southwestern Seminary, I had missions class in a large, ornate room next to the Chapel. During our time in Fort Worth, we would take visitors downtown to a storefront building to see a display of wax figures depicting DaVinci’s Last Supper. Only later was I told that a wealthy benefactor had commissioned this as a gift to the seminary to be displayed in that large room adjacent to the Chapel. It was meant to attract visitors to the seminary; however, the more conservative brethren in Texas objected to these “graven images” so they went into the exile downtown. (If this story is apocryphal, someone please correct me.) I think Jesus and the ...
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