May Christians Make Images of Jesus?
So, would it be sinful to make an appearance of Jesus? What is one going to do with an image or likeness of Jesus? Admire it? Appreciate it? Respect it? If that is the purpose, then why would that not be idolatry? In Exodus 20:4-5, God told Mosees, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me…."