According to iconoclasts, worshipping religious icons was considered an abuse amounting to idolatry (Cameron 102). They felt that religious icons broke one of the Ten Commandments, which forbids making and worshipping images. Iconoclasts condemned the production of religious images, as they felt it was impossible to represent Christ. In their opinion the only true image of Christ was the Eucharist, which they believed was His actual body and blood. Simply by attempting to construct an image of Christ, the icon artist was automatically separating His divine and human nature, as the divine cannot be represented. On the other hand, iconophiles argued that it was possible to represent Christ symbolically since it was similar to how the Holy Liturgy is a reproduction of the Passion (Demus 6).
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