"As soon as a visible form is given to God, his power also is supposed to be annexed to it. ... It makes no difference whether they worship the idol simply or God in the idol; it is always idolatry (John Calvin, Institutes, I, XI, on the Puritan Hard Drive http://www.PuritanDownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html).
FREE SWRB MP3: Pictures of Christ and Idolatry by Greg Price This MP3 defends the biblical position of the Protestant Reformation against the use of pictures and images of Christ, in opposition to the idolatry of Roman Catholicism and the first century Gnostics. http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=32401164443
"We must hold it as a first principle, that as often as any form is assigned to God, his glory is corrupted by an impious lie." - John Calvin (Institutes 1.11.1 on the Puritan Hard Drive http://www.PuritanDownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html)
FREE SWRB MP3: Roman Catholicism Permeating Evangelicalism (Separation From Images and Idolatry) by Richard Bennett (Former Romanist priest, who is now a Christian and Protestant author, conference speaker, etc.) http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1016091943513 A powerful message exposing and rebuking "Evangelical" and "Reformed" compromisers and apostates in our day. In this message Richard Bennett names names, so you do not have to guess who it is you need to separate from, rebuke and expose. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" (2 Corinthians 6:17). "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them" (Ephesians 5:11).http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1016091943513
"Calvin's argument is that there is no such thing as an 'innocent' religious image. Their acceptance alone is an act of idolatry, so that as soon as images appear, religion is corrupted and adulterated." - Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin, p. 226 (cf. Institutes, 2.8.17 on the Puritan Hard Drive http://www.PuritanDownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html).
"Question 51: What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? Answer 51: The Second Commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in His Word." - Westminster Shorter Catechism on the Puritan Hard Drive http://www.PuritanDownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html