There is simply no biblical basis for icon veneration. Rather, it gives every appearance of being an intrusion of idolatry into the life of God’s people, as so often happens throughout redemptive history. Perhaps because it lacks any biblical foundation, icon veneration is often framed as an implication of the goodness of creation, as well as of incarnation. This has the rhetorical advantage of making the iconoclast concern sound like Gnosticism or an aversion to physicality.89 But it is a misdirection: Both sides fully agree on the goodness of creation and the nature of the incarnation. From
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