True Worship
This article by Rodney Kleyn expounds Lord's Day 35 of the Heidelberg Catechism, focusing on the second commandment's prohibition of image worship and its implications for proper Christian worship. Through careful catechetical exposition, Kleyn establishes three biblical principles for worship: the corporate nature of worship, God's jealous demand for proper worship forms, and the serious consequences of idolatry. The resource demonstrates how Reformed theology applies the regulative principle of worship to guard the church against false practices and maintain the centrality of God's Word in all corporate devotion.
Lord's Day 35 Question 96. What doth God require in the second commandment? Answer. That we in no wise represent God by images, nor worship Him in any other way than He has commanded in His Word. Question 97. Are images then not at all to be made? Answer. God neither can nor may be represented by any means. But as to creatures, though they may be represented, yet God forbids to make or have any resemblance of them either in order to worship them or to serve God by them. Question 98. But...
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