For the image is one thing and the thing depicted is another. Icons are not primarily historical but spiritual portrayals. An icon of the Resurrection, in which Adam and Eve are rescued from the grave, is not intended to paint an exact physical likeness of Adam and Eve. An icon is more like the Bible. Furthermore, the Seventh Ecumenical Council declared that the commandment prohibiting idolatry was designed to forbid Israelites from worshiping the false gods of the people they were about to conquer.
Tradition supports icons .
The iconodules quoted church fathers like Athanasius, Basil, and John Chrysostom, who supported the use of icons. Furthermore, icon veneration had long been part of the practice of the most ancient churches, and none of the preceding six ecumenical councils had ever raised questions concerning it. Icons affirm the church's teaching about Christ . If Christ did not have a real human body, then he didn't identify completely with the created order. Like their opponents, the iconodules also drew their conclusions from the Chalcedon Definition.