We don’t need an image of God because we have one in his Son.

The second commandment says: ‘You shall not make for yourself and idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth’. Despite this there are idols all around us. The problem comes in when the idol distracts us from the one who is real and perfect in every way, Jesus Christ. We are told elsewhere in Scripture that ‘he is the image of the invisible God’ and that ‘in him all things hold together’.

Here we see the danger and folly of idols. An idol is something created by man who has been created by God. So an idol cannot help us in our deepest need … the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus, however, can help us because he lived, died and rose again to pay the penalty for sin on the cross, as a perfect sacrifice and substitute. All those who turn away from their idols and trust in what he has accomplished for them are forgiven and set free forever.