This Lord’s Day is “Resurrection Sunday.” Ironically, many churches (even professing Reformed/Presbyterian churches) will attempt to “honor” Christ by using images of what he is thought to look like, thereby breaking the 2nd commandment in the name of piety. As if the text of Scripture isn’t clear enough. Besides, Christ and his benefits are given to us through the Word and Sacraments, made effective by the Holy Spirit; his ordinances are sufficient. He doesn’t need the help of lying pictures.

Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved 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.

5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them,

for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,

visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

#WLC Q. 109. What sins are forbidden in the second commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the second commandment are,

all devising, counseling, commanding, using, and any wise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself;

the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever;

all worshiping of it, or God in it or by it;

the making of any representation of feigned deities, and all worship of them, or service belonging to them;

all superstitious devices, corrupting the worship of God, adding to it, or taking from it, whether invented and taken up of ourselves, or received by tradition from others, though under the title of antiquity, custom, devotion, good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever;

simony; sacrilege; all neglect, contempt, hindering, and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.

Hattip: Christian Worldview Discipleship