Maranatha Visual Arts

“a picture is worth a thousand souls”

Why did you do pictures of Jesus, isn’t that Biblically forbidden?

In the ten commandments it states that one is not to create images to worship them!  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;  you shall not bow down to them nor serve them  (Exodus 20:4-5 NKJV). God Himself created the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant. In our culture today we don’t worship pictures as we recognize that they are just representations. Our son in law put it best, compared to the real Jesus, our renditions are like stick figures!