Humble Orthodox priest and an icon.
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Manmade representations promote vanity, pride, and the deification of things other than God, and reduce humility, awareness of the Holy Spirit, and submission to Gods will in the moment.
God never intended anyone to kneel before a painting of the Archangel Michael, and doing so doesn't bring you closer to God in the moment.
By any chance are you a Muslim?
In the biblical context, graven images explicitly referred to idols to devils that were venerated with the worship solely reserved for God Himself (which is obviously the crime of idolatry). It never referred to images in general, especially icons, which were not only permitted, but actually mandated (the description of the Ark of the covenant and Solomon's temple are *full* of Icons as well as non-religious sculptures as well). Had God not wanted the Israelites to create works of art and Icons, He would have never commanded them to build the Ark of the Covenant with such specifications. Iconoclasm was formally condemned as heretical by the early Church for this reason.
All of the apostles were ethnic jews, They worshiped in the temple and celebrated Passover. whatever they did after his death is worth reading but it's not the word of God, it's basically a bunch of rabbis
Why would God would be so vague in his command?
Why is there not entire chapters dedicated to clarifying this?
What you should believe or do about it?
It's not my job to say, it's yours.
They banned it in Ukraine recently.
And tortured thousands of priests in Romania, during communism, to force them to renouce Christ. They chose torture over a life without Jesus.
You're a filthy stinky muslim who knows nothing shut the fuck up with your criticism. It's an icon of an angel meant , have you ever seen an orthodox church? They're all painted with beautiful icons. You're truly a stinky idiot from God knows what Christ-less denomination who seeks vain criticism. Now you're gonna tell us that if we pray at an Icon of Jesus we're actually the anti-Christ.
You're an idiot plan and simple.