So, the Protestants claim icon veneration inducts synaesthesia of its worship. Here's what I've researched on both sides:
Orthodox: Venerates Icons.
Protestant: Calls it idolatry.
Orthodox: "It's God's will."
Protestant: Highlights the danger of idolatry and the futility of veneration as it leads to worship of icons/idols.
Orthodox: John 1:14. Meaning that denying icons is to deny Christ's humanity.
The truth about this—
The scripture "& in the beginning, there was the word," changed my outlook on Jesus Christ & rewired my spirit, but my mind & body lagged behind. I didn't understand, but I understood —this isn't relative of time frame, but the lagging of my body behind it. This is why I accepted the path to salvation as involving physical means, because without them —the resulting soul wouldn't be altogether 'saved.'
I wanted to say that "the physical is just physical" to demonstrate the temporal as meaningless, but God's will is worked physically, mentally, spiritually, & thus 'soully.' Plus, meaning is meaningless. However, Jesus is God-incarnated physical, translating to visible depictions as permissible. Plus, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." Which is John 1:14.
Also, according to St. John to Damascus's studies, the refusal to depict Christ denies the reality of his full human nature. Which is true.
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