Exodus 20:4–6 (ESV)

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Any Christian can have some idea of God that might be idolatrous. John writes in his letter, “God is love” (1 John 4:16). This doesn’t mean that God is permissive or that God is present where people love each other. This happens when one or more character traits of God become absolute.