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.
I haven't been to church in 25 years, I just read the Bible.
God said what he said.
This guy is clearly kneeling in front of a image, And the image isn't God because he can't be drawn