Why should we consider ourselves wiser than God and provide what He has deliberately left out? Faith is by the Word ← ⤒ 🔗 Surely, if God desired the use of pictures of Christ to further the cause of Christ, He would have had a physical description of His Son in His Word. Surely it is significant that neither they nor any other of the Scriptures gave a physical description of the Lord. They wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. With all their love for the Lord you would think that Peter or John would have given a description of Him unless, of course, they were forbidden. Isn't that strange? If God wanted us to use pictures of Christ in spreading the Gospel or in worship, wouldn't we be told whether Christ was tall or short, fair or dark, light or dark hair, blue eyes or brown eyes? No God-Given Description ⤒ 🔗 Nowhere in the Bible, either in the Old Testament or New Testament, is there a physical description of Christ. The Bible is our infallible guide in faith and worship. If we are Christians, our service and worship will be regulated by the Word of God. But before you have such unkind thoughts please hear me out. No doubt, if I state that the use of pictures of Christ is unscriptural that it does not meet with the approval of God that it is sinful and that it is a breaking of the second commandment – I will be considered as a fanatic, a reactionary, and perhaps not quite normal. Is that Scriptural? Does it meet with the approval of God? Is it sinful? Is it another way of breaking the second commandment? There can be no question of that.īut, in many Protestant churches and in many evangelical churches, pictures of Christ are used in teaching and in the homes of Christians pictures of Christ are hung up to remind them, I suppose, of Christ. Naturally the commandment forbids the bowing down before such pictures and worshipping them.
Now the question has been asked whether or not this commandment forbids the use of pictures of Christ.
We are forbidden to bow down to them or to serve them. In this second commandment we are forbidden to make 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.
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