Day 35 • Question 97
97
May
we
then
not
make
any
image
at
all?
God
cannot
and
may
not
be
visibly
portrayed
in
any
way.
Creatures
may
be
portrayed,
but
God
forbids
us
to
make
or
have
any
images
of
them
in
order
to
worship
them
or
to
serve
God
through
them.
1
Footnote 1
Exodus 34:13-14
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Exodus 34:17
"You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
Numbers 33:52
then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
2 Kings 18:4-5
He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
Isaiah 40:25
To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.