Before the Incarnation, it was idolatrous to make an image of God.
Now that the Incarnation has taken place, it would be idolatrous not to make images of Him.
When a religion rejects images of God, it sends the message that God is only a spirit, and that He has no physical body. Before the Incarnation, that was true. After the Incarnation, it is false, and is therefore idolatry.
There are two types of idolatry:
1) Worshiping false gods
2) Worshiping the true God in
a way which misrepresents Him
In ancient Israel, when people worshiped Baal, Ashtoreth, and Molech, they committed the first form of idolatry. These are all false gods, and it is idolatry to worship them in any way whatsoever, either with or without images.
When the Israelites worshiped the golden calf, they committed the second form of idolatry. They correctly noted the identity of the true…
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