Are toys graven images?

[Esaias]

I appreciate the responses but I think some of you may have missed the point.

The point is - the commandment forbids the making of any likeness or 'image' of living things. It also forbids the use of them for objects of worship.

Thus, there are TWO PARTS to the commandment.

A child's doll or toy animal, or a person's little statue of an animal used as a decoration, would therefore qualify as a forbidden object, right?

Someone brought up the emerods and mice... was that commanded by God or did the pagans come up with that on their own? (Just wondering, I can't recall the entire story right off hand).

I do remember the brazen serpent, which I always thought was weird... I understand it being a type of Christ, lifted up, to whom if we look we will be healed... but then if we take the typology further does it not indicate worship of Jesus is idolatry?

Besides which, I can't imagine nobody in Moses' day didn't go 'Say what? Make a brass serpent, put it on a pole, and anyone bit by a snake will go and look on the serpent and be healed? Moses! Not that long ago you had a bunch of us killed for making a gold cow, now you want us to make a brass snake? Wha...?'

lol