“proclaim Jesus to be one of “their” gods.”
No where do I proclaim the Lord Jesus to be their GOD. I’ll say this really slow, I proclaim a graven image to be their god.
I hate to break the news to you, but that image isn’t the Lord Jesus nor does it represent the true Lord Jesus to anyone that has read and studied the Holy Word of GOD.
Over and over GOD and our Lord Jesus Christ tells us not to worship, serve, or have any kind of image.
Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
A portrait of Jesus in my home?
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers ...