[Havoc]

an image is not a likeness

This is basically a matter of your splitting hairs over word use to say a statue is not a graven image because you call it an icon rather than an image. Your point's gone dull Alfalfa. Here's a clue, an icon is an image. If you haven't figured it out, I was going to school to become a professional artist before I left college. Your semantics may work on someone that's ignorant of art or the English language; but, not on someone who knows the terms. In other words "Pull the other one!"

[The_Reader_David]

English! Oh, that's my problem, I've been reading the oldest extant versions of the Holy Scriptures, the ones in Greek. Gee, isn't it wonderful God corrected those errors when the Bible got translated into English. Fancy that He didn't mean eidolon or homoioma, he meant eikon, which are all radically distinct notions in Greek, and finally got it straightened out when it was translated into English. Gee, we're so lucky to be living now. All those supposely holy folk before the 1600's are damned because they based they're doctrines on a faulty text. /sarcasm