10/01/2026
✨Why the Feast of the BLACK NAZARENE (veneration of an image) UNBIBLICAL‼️✨
This is not an attack on people, but an evaluation of a religious practice in the light of Scripture (Acts 17:11).
I. The Core Issue: Veneration of an Image
The Feast centers on touching, kissing, carrying, and trusting in a carved image believed to convey blessing, healing, or favor.
Exodus 20:4–5 (KJV)
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them…”
Even if the image represents Christ, bowing, touching for blessing, and religious devotion toward it violates God’s command.
II. God Rejects Worship Through Images
Deuteronomy 4:15–16 (KJV)
“Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves…
lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image…”
God intentionally hid His form so worship would never be image-based.
III. Images Cannot Mediate God’s Power
Psalm 115:4–8 (KJV)
“Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands…
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.”
Any belief that touching or carrying an image brings miracles or blessing is trust misplaced.
IV. Christ Is Not to Be Re-Imagined or Re-Presented
2 Corinthians 5:16 (KJV)
“Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”
Christ is no longer to be approached physically or visually, but spiritually.
V. True Worship Is Spiritual, Not Ritualistic
John 4:23–24 (KJV)
“The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth…
God is a Spirit…”
Processions, rituals, and physical contact with an image contradict spiritual worship.
VI. God’s Glory Will Not Be Shared With Images
Isaiah 42:8 (KJV)
“I am the LORD: that is my name:
and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
Observation:
Mass devotion, chants, kneeling, and sacrifices of devotion directed to an image rob God of exclusive glory.
VII. Christ Alone Is the Mediator
1 Timothy 2:5 (KJV)
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
Danger:
Using an image as a point of access to God is a false mediation.
VIII. Christianity Had NO Religi