These foolish “arguments” ostensibly drawn from Holy Scripture come up now and then. The Puritans and large sectors of the Protestant Reformed (Calvinist) tradition historically reasoned in this way. These are the same folks who would say that an organ in a church or even a bare cross or statue of Jesus Christ is an idol — as John Calvin and some other early Protestant leaders argued. Jehovah’s Witnesses picked up the same reasoning in the 19th century (the founder,... Read more