Image of Christ

For many years, some denominations felt that images of Christ is a violation of the Second Commandment. Simply because in the second commandment it is 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. Over the years, the question has been asked whether or not this commandment forbids the use of pictures of Christ. Are we disobeying the Word of God? I don't personally care about pictures of Christ because no one really knows what He really looked like except He came for race which the Jewish family. The heart of the issue is this: It is one thing to have an image of Christ, which is worshiped. It is another thing to have a representation on paper for illustration and examples that are clearly not worshiped. During the Old Testament, we didn't have an image of God in any form. In the New Testament, Christ came down to become man like the rest of us. Everyone who lived and saw Jesus Christ have saw GOD in person. As long as we understand, that it is simply a representation of a man that really did walk on the earth, and really did live on the earth, I think we can make a distinction in our minds. We are not worshiping the picture. Therefore, we are not making an image of God because God Himself came in the form of a man, and we are simply reproducing the form of a man, in which God came. Its a difficult answer for an easy question. When a desire is based on “worship”, there is a danger of idolatry. The seduction of idolatry have been very strong and very successful since the days of the Old Testament books. Throughout the Bible, God have warned people to be careful of idolatry because we could slip into it almost without noticing it. Idolatry is an excessive devotion or reverence to an object or objects. Keep in mind that all personal desires are judged by God’s moral will and wisdom. The heart is the source of our emotions, thoughts and motives. The heart is the part of our being where we desire, deliberate, and decide.