The Second Commandment states:
"You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth." (Ex 20:4)

About this commandment, Charles Hodge said: "Idolatry consists not only in the worship of false gods, but also in the worship of the true God by images." J.I. Packer builds on this idea; "This means that we are not to make use of visual or pictorial representations of the triune God, or of any person of the Trinity, for the purpose of Christian worship...what it tells us is that statues and pictures of the One whom we worship are not to be used as an aid to worshiping Him." (Knowing God, pg. 44)

The problem with making an image of Jesus is that it's going to be limited and imperfect, and those limitations and imperfections are going to be projected onto the minds and thoughts of those observing the image. They will not see Jesus in all of His glory because we are incapable of reproducing His glory. (This might be why Jesus, "in the fullness of time" was incarnated before photography was invented.)

The church in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere is currently dealing with the consequences of filling the globe with historically inaccurate images of an Anglo-Jesus. The internet is flooded with pictures of Jesus draped in an American flag (I even found a picture of Jesus holding an assault rifle). Right now Christians are in an uproar about the painting of "The Last Supper" being mocked at the Olympics, but is anyone asking if "The Last Supper" should have ever been painted in the first place? Finally, I can imagine an entire generation of Christians that will picture the face of Jonathan Roumie (the actor who plays Jesus on "The Chosen") when they sing and pray to Jesus.

I have a solution to all of these problematic and misleading images of Jesus that are constantly produced. I suggest that the Christian Church institute a blanket prohibition on creating and using images of Jesus within the church. Where have I heard this idea before?