Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
So many wear crosses, crucifixes, they have them hanging on their walls at home or pictures of crosses or what they may think Jesus looked like, paintings statuses of sorts, and as far as we know one wouldn’t bow to them but are they offensive to the Lord? Why was the Lord adamant about an image. Messages of many sorts are in images political propaganda for one and the Catholic church used paintings and images to convey a message to a people that most likely could read or write.
But, thing is, the Word of God conveys the image of God to His creation and the creatures therein, no physical thing can be in the image of God, and it’s through God’s Word we know and worship Him.