Deu 4:11 "You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom.
Deu 4:12 "Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form --only a voice.
Deu 4:13 "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deu 4:14 "The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.
Deu 4:15 "So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
Deu 4:16 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Can you distinguish between times of Deuteronomy when people never saw God before and times of Jesus when God in Man came to the world as one of us?
Jesus was/is both the Son of God and a son of man. So, seeing Jesus, we saw God (Father) himself according to his Own words directed to his disciples.
So, we CAN, we are fully eligible to make figures and paintings of God because Jesus was the man of flesh and blood that was SEEN, was visible and therefore we can say “We have seen Jesus, WE HAVE SEEN GOD who walked upon the earth, who walked and lived among us, He turned up in public so many a time never hiding his face or silhouette as if it was something forbidden to be seen by people. So, we saw his Countenance because he wanted it to be seen and remembered by people and it was a countenance of son of man that was once full of joy and anxiety the other time. Anyway, it was a human countenance of GOD which we worship also by paintings and other forms of art.
It is NOT my intention to insult you, but next time do not ping me, please, with such an attitude to Words of God. There are so many different attitudes, so many strange approaches all over the world and I do not have time to correct them all.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
John 1:1-3; 14