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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 20:4

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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20:4 Not making an image of God is the first step toward recognizing that he is transcendent—that he is the Creator of the universe and distinct from it. To represent God as something in creation was inevitably to end up worshiping the creation rather than the Creator, and this immorality had deadly consequences (Rom 1:18-25).
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