But may images not be tolerated in the churches as “books for the laity”?
No, for we should not be wiser than God. He wants His people to be taught not by means of dumb images but by the living preaching of His Word.
Proofs
- No, for we should not be wiser than God. He wants His people to be taught not by means of dumb images (Jeremiah 10:8; Habakkuk 2:18–20)
- but by the living preaching of His Word. (Romans 10:14–15; Romans 10:17; 2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:19)