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The Face Of The Invisible

Idols and icons are ways of seeing the divine, of making the invisible visible. For the Jews of the old testament there was no difference between an idol and an icon – any visible representation of God was blasphemous. But Christians could not ignore that Jesus became a visible representation of the invisible God, yet they do not consider him an idol. And so a distinction had to be drawn between these two concepts.

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