I understand why the icons were used. They told theological truths. I wonder though, what happened to your amazement of them?
No, boatbums, they just tell theology, not theological truths. I am still amazed by them. You should read what an iconogrpaher has to do before he even sits down to write (icons are written not painted, because they tell as story, a pictorial language of sorts; icons must never be confused for religious art).