What is idolatry?

A lot of people have pictures of Jesus on their wall. I've been in churches that have pictures of Jesus. And he always has the long brown hair and we know the image, right? The thing that bothers me about that, not because I think it's an idol.

I mean, if you were bowing down to the picture, I think that's, I think you're on thin ice. But see, I know that's not Jesus in the picture.

Jesus didn't look like that.

I don't know what he looked like, but I know that's not him.

Here's what I think.

Based on this, based on everything I know about this in scripture, here's what I'm sure of is an idol. If it's three-dimensional, number one, it's of a living being that's three-dimensional and it's made for religious purposes and people are bowing to it.

That much would be an idol. And obviously if they go a step beyond that and they not only bow, but they pray to the thing. So if you have a 3D image of a man, angel, a saint, a fish, it doesn't matter what it is.

If you're bowing down to that statue, that is idolatry. If that's not idolatry, the word has no meaning.