In his work on the reception history of Genesis 1, Stanley L. Jaki wrote that
The
very prohibition of making any image of God was a powerful reminder that God was
pure spirit. (Stanley L. Jaki, Genesis 1 Through the Ages [2d ed.; Edinburgh:
Real View Books, 1998], 27; by 'pure spirit', Jaki, a Catholic, means immaterial spirit)
Contra Jaki, there is an ‘image’
of God in the Bible, and that is humanity who is the ‘cult image’ of God
according to the theology of Genesis 1:26-27. On this, see the exegesis of this
passage at:
Lynn Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
On the issue of images/icons, see
the listing of articles at:
Answering Fundamentalist Protestants and Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox on Images/Icons
