How to talk about God without offending believers？

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I don't mean to offend, although it looks like。
The part that interests me is this: demon can claim to be God's representative and call believers to war,By “interpreting” the Bible，as long as he is sufficiently familiar with the Bible and has strong logical skills.
God must have written something in the book to prevent this from happening，For example, Allah does not allow any form of statue. Did Jesus say anything?
Now that I know Jesus asked people to read the original book, it is comprehensive and beautiful, I want to know something else
You know what I'm talking about if you know anything about history.

you're making the same point that Mark Twain made when he said that "even the Devil can cite scripture for his purposes".

And...that very quote by Twain is a great tool to use in the kinda discourse you're talking about.

That is odd about "graven images".

Old Testament forbade ANY images of ANY thing (on heaven or earth).

Christ didnt have much to say about it.

The Muslims doubled down on that commandment.

Because Christ didnt say much about it the Catholic church became the biggest generator of visual religious art on the planet. Stained glass windows of the Gothic Cathedrals, and all of the great art of the Renaissance masters....frescoes, statues, etc.

The Protestant Reformation restored the Jewish attitude in Christianity of opposing graven images. But the Protestant Reformation also coincided with the invention of the printing press, which enabled the spreading of the faith through the written word without reliance upon visual art in cathedrals. Just print Bibles and print them in the vernacular and then every plow boy can know scripture as well as a priest. And doesnt need the visual aids of art to learn the stories of the Bible.

The new religion combined with the new tech helped make Protestant culture more democratic. But less visually interesting than Catholic culture.

It's hard to discuss make-believe with true believers.

Many people forget Jesus Christ came with a sword, he offended most people. The fact is the truth offends those that hate it, those that live in illusions, those that choose their delusions over reality. Jesus Christ and God will always be offensive to those that hate him. Speak your mind, without regret, while having empathy for those you speak to.

Another thing to keep in mind, most self proclaimed Christians are fake. The Bible teaches FAITH ALONE in Jesus Christ while all religious denominations teach works based salvation, prosperity gospel, and all kinds of other nonsense. The Bible is the only book in the realm that teaches Faith Alone in Jesus Christ.

Each flavour of Christianity likes to insist it's the correct One True Religion.

And they're all equally correct/incorrect.

i thought the graven images ban specifically referred to only yahweh? that mere mortals should not try to image or picture or even imagine god as the totality of god is beyond human comprehension and would only serve to distort the meaning of god?