Images have been used throughout history to represent everything from people to gods and everything in between. It was a way for those who could not read to understand the stories and lessons of the Bible. When Christianity began to become more popular, early theologians believed that images were considered idolatry. When iconoclasm began they believed that images were also bad, but people began to find a purpose in images and the issue of images in religion was partly the conclusion with Bernard of Clairvaux who believed that they were good as long as they were used to honor God. . Theologians throughout time have all had many different ideas about what images should and should not be used in Christianity. According to Exodus 20:4, God said to His chosen people, “You shall not make for yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any kind. anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth. » (KJV). Early Christian theologians took the second commandment very seriously; they thought that the images of Christ and God were false because they considered them idols or graven images; break the second commandment. Most Christians, in early times and today, believe that God has no form, allowing Him to be omnipresent; early theologians believed that creating in the image of God or Jesus Christ confined him. According to Justin Martyr in First Apology, ch. IX because earlier cultures used images to evoke the presence of certain gods, which would make the Christian God "soulless and dead", like the gods of other cultures. Minucius Felix also argues that God is too large to be confined in a small temple or sanctuary, he says in Octavius, ch. XXXII "What temple can I build for him, when the whole university...... middle of paper...... has pulled out and read the fictitious stories on the wall rather than the stories and important lessons from the Bible. Many would agree that some images can be a distraction and should be troubling to Christian believers. All of these theologians had different opinions on the usefulness of images, but there was one thing they all agreed on:; Images should not be used for idolatry or to distract from studies. One thing the images were good for, as Bernard of Clairvaux later mentioned, is that as long as the images glorify God, they are not considered idolatry, which seems to contradict itself. Today there are many images of Jesus Christ, God and the Holy Spirit. They are used not only as decoration, but also to remind religious people of the different stories in the Bible and that God sent his son to die for his sins..