[Cronos]

Mark: Matthew does not denounce any...

CG: "quoting from Exodus" 4 “You shall not make for yourself

Errr.. CG, you do realize that your post is talking at cross-purposes. Mark specifically posted about the Gospel of Matthew. you quote Exodus

Secondly, a bit later you can read nice descriptions of how the ark is to have graven images carved on it...

Graven images?

Thirdly, your post's position of iconoclasm dates from the time when the Caliph Al-Malik started. The debate was over by the 800s and has periodic revivals under Islamic influence etc.

[Country Gal]

I’ll let the 10 commandments speak for themselves.

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.