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tomshaikh
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Man i donot want all the man made stories. I want the commandment number and if you post please I will be thank full to you. The commandment about imageYou haven’t read the apologetics of Saint John DamasceneHe was involved with the 7th Ecumenical Council, which dealt with iconography.
Do not forget we were made in the image of God - in the Koine Greek the word is eikon, from which we get the word icon. Christ, the Incarnate Word, is the literal image of God. Christ became man so that man might become God, not by nature but by imitation (ie. godly). Christ purified that tarnished flesh. During the Orthodox liturgy there’s a fine moment that visualizes all this, where the priest comes out and censes the icon of Christ (the image of God) then turns and censes the congregation (the images of God).
Do not be too steadfast against ANY imagery, however. Do not forget that even though God commanded no graven image, the Ark which He ordered constructed had statues of angels - in other words, images of heavenly things. These were not graven images, but they are an example of iconography and imagery in early worship.