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Originally Posted by larryjf  Yes, images of God is idolatry.
The Son did come in human form as Jesus, but He had both divine and human natures revealed through His person. So though He appeared as a man He had the nature of both man and God...which we can't capture in a man-made image.
Further, if it was o.k. to make images of Him, why didn't the apostles or early Church do it? | Precisely, and can anyone really say that a so-called picture of Jesus is really an accurate portrayal of Christ? Instead it represents how the artist wants us to think about Christ. Hence many pictures of the Lord are effiminate. However, the "gentle Jesus, meek and mild" (not using those terms in a Biblical sense) that the pictures seek to portray is not the Biblical Christ. Moreover, do not pictures of Christ violate Sola Scriptura? Surely the Bible tells us all we need to know about the Lord Jesus Christ, and so we do not need pictures which men have invented to tell us more about Him. The Scriptures are a complete and sufficient revelation of Christ for the Christian.
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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)
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