Dolls - Graven Images, Idols, or Simple Kids Toys?

a graven image is something u bow down to and worship, i also collected super hero action figures and i joke that they are the idols of my youth but since i do not bow down or worship them in any way they are just children's playthings, though mobile phones obsession is what worries me, its like they have become the new idol of the modern age

Well theres tv people do kind of bow down and worship it by sitting down on a sofa or lying on the couch and staring at it for hours on end everyday as a kind of devotion.
Plus theres pop stars people put posters of people they admire on their walls and look at it eveyrday and try to communicate with them. Worship meaning praising them all the time.

Also a lot of childhood toys are really just idols repackaged, and some of them just look like golden calves. Maybe just be discerning because you dont know what spirit is behind it, like buddha heads and dragons and demonic creatures. You dont really need that stuff anyway. If they take away your focus on God then do you really need it?

I mean half the muppets are actually monsters, like cookie monster, well what demon does he represent, greed? Satan does operate through images.. image of the beast etc. when people worship the image of the beast they get taken in, they may as well worship the beast and satan himself. Thats why God said not to make any image of Him cos you cant hes spirit he cant be moulded and shaped by our hands. GOd doesnt have a form since hes a consuming fire...theres just no way we can reduce him into an image.

And Jesus, didnt want us worshipping his image either but listening to His word, what he says is more imprtant that what he looks like. Cos Jesus came in the flesh he was ordinary human just like us. So the thing is you cant make a doll of him and put that up and say you worship this doll which may be made of plastic or wood or whatever.

Anyway just food for thought God was really against idolatry amongst the israelites for good reason. And John admonishes little children to keep away from idols. Why little children, well we know what prolific toy manufactoers are making lots of money from plastic crap.

In my case I have never had such things as posters of stars,games musi or the like, but that is just how I am.

There is nothing wrong with anyone who has a special place in his or her heart for someone having an image of them unless they go so far as to worship it……...that is wrong.

As for tv, I have always watched it for news and and everyday current events, education and entertainment.

I have lived since the late 1940's watching tv, and somehow I managed to strain the whopper lies out of the news and sit-coms. I mean, I knew I Love Lucy was far from rality, and the show gav m a lot of laughtss…….Right ow I think of how when the Ricardo's apartment caught on fire all Lucy wanted to save was her gallon jugs of henna rinse .... funny...not sacrilege.

I never saw it 3 years ago..i googled a question yesterday..therez so many things to ponder and question this is like a grain of salt but I do appreciate insight when given thank you

My advice is to stop googling things, and read the Bible.

No, dolls are not bad! I guess that means boys have to have their trucks and sports toys taken away from them?