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Are you saying the Seventh Ecumenical Councils, the same councils whose Apostolic succession came from the Fathers and established the Canon, got it wrong when they reaffirmed the accept ion of icons?

Yes. Westminster Confession:

All synods or councils since the apostles’ times, whether general or particular, may err, and many have erred; therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith or practice, but to be used as a help in both.

They erred on this. I'm not a "nothing living ever" prohibitionist, but we are not to try to depict any aspect of the Trinity in images or icons. I'm even wary of the Trinity diagrams (the "begotten of" "is not" "emerges from" ones) but I don't think those are prohibited -- just dangerously close.

What about a true image?

No man can make a true image of Jesus Christ, because no man can capture his divinity. An angel could look at Jesus and say, "he looks just like his Father." No one can make a picture or carving that captures that.

Exodus 26:1. Here is God commanding Moses to depict cherubim.

Cherubim aren't God.