Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p.103
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Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these stuffed dummies—carved or painted images—when our deeds convict us? God hates and despises images, as I shall show. He considers them an abomination and says that all human beings are in his eyes as the things they love. Images are an abomination; it follows therefore that we too shall become abominable, if we love them.

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What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these stuffed dummies—carved or painted images—when our deeds convict us? God hates and despises images, as I shall show. He considers them an abomination and says that all human beings are in his eyes as the things they love. Images are an abomination; it follows therefore that we too shall become abominable, if we love them." in the context of "Andreas Karlstadt, On the Removal of Images (1522), p.103" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Andreas Karlstadt

About Andreas Karlstadt

Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486 – 1541) was a German Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation.