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
Read more at The Orthodox Life
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
Read more at The Orthodox Life
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