*The halo, aureola, or nimbus was developed from the Hellenic convention of placing a sunburst crown on the statues of deities - as with the spiked crown of the Statue of Liberty.
**The Source by James A. Michener, Random House, 1965, p. 205
When AAron crafted the golden calf, he and the people believed that the calf represented the God of israel, they did not view it as crafting a false god..... they believed they were worshipping their God...
They couldn’t worship without some type of imagery but God condemned them. I wonder how many times in these threads the comment has been made by Catholics that the statues, pictures, and engravings only “represent”? Yet they vehemently deny and similarity to what the Israelites did that God condemned as idolatry.
When AAron crafted the golden calf, he and the people believed that the calf represented the God of israel, they did not view it as crafting a false god..... they believed they were worshipping their God...
Are you saying that something representing the true God is not an idol, but one representing a false god is? Or...
What precisely makes one an idol and another not?