Dr. Robert Godfrey Warns Against Seeing Movies Depicting Jesus

During the 1st Q and A session at the 2014 Ligonier Conference, Dr. Robert Godfrey gave the following advice:

"Don't go to pictures where Jesus is represented. [Movies depicting Jesus] plant in the minds of yourself and others a picture of a person who is not Jesus. If I carry a picture around of a woman who's beautiful in my wallet and haul it out and say, 'This is my wife,' but it's not my wife, my wife might be upset about that. We don't know what Jesus looked like, and the Bible offers no encouragement to His pictorial representation."

The other panelists disagreed with Dr. Godfrey. R.C. Sproul immediately turned to John Calvin to support the idea that images of Jesus are permissible. (His use of Calvin in this regard is highly dubious in my opinion.) Other panelists turned to the idea of pre-literate peoples to try and support the idea that images are useful. However, no panelist who disagreed with Dr. Godfrey directly addressed his line of reasoning.