This morning as I was reading the Larger Catechism's exposition of the second commandment, I came across this:
I have often wondered about there being in churches images of doves and lambs (representing the Spirit and Son, respectively). Would these be a violation of the second commandment? I had always been bothered by them, simply because it felt inconsistent, for example, to forbid images of Jesus but then set up a stained glass window that has a lamb in it. This answer in the WLC seems to concur.
"The sins forbidden in the second commandment are...the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever" (WLC 109).
I have often wondered about there being in churches images of doves and lambs (representing the Spirit and Son, respectively). Would these be a violation of the second commandment? I had always been bothered by them, simply because it felt inconsistent, for example, to forbid images of Jesus but then set up a stained glass window that has a lamb in it. This answer in the WLC seems to concur.