God is to be prayed to or worshiped ONLY IN THE SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, and displaying fake pictures of Him in not acceptable and an offence to Him. My strong advice to anyone that has any such religious statues or pictures, or even art pieces as his personal possession, is to destroy them immediately for they are useless and may even be cause of stumbling, yours or others! Once in the home of a catholic friend I saw a porcelain statue of Mary in pieces put back together with glue, I said to her: "See this idol of yours, it could not even protect itself, toss it away." She did not say anything but kept on in keeping the idol and presumably still praying to it. If this is not idolatry, what is?

Secondly, art exalts for the sake of art how man sees things his way, not God’s. These are all distorted visions of reality; otherwise it would not be art, as per the definitions above. In other words they are all lies. We may even say that art in effect even breaks the 9th commandment: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour." (Exo 20:16) in that what the artist proposes to people (his neighbour) is a lie and not reality.

Thirdly, art glorifies man and his abilities, rather than bringing glory to God alone: "Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1Co 10:31) "For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?" (1Co 4:7)

And the glory that art brings to man is really a miserable one at that, for man’s reproductions and inventions are very pathetic things when compared to the excellence of the original creation of God. Of course these pretentious and false reproductions do indeed offend God, for He is the truth, whilst art is false: "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." (Joh 14:6)

As defined above, Art is entirely a human endeavour unnecessary for the practicalities of life, but done solely for personal ‘aesthetic’ reasons perceived as pleasant to the human eye and for human consumption alone and therefore it is at odds with the reason God gave it to mankind and consequently not acceptable to Him.