Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”
Idolatry is one of the most misunderstood issue in religion. I read this little explanation on the reasons for "making an image" to worship is idolatry. There
are several reasons why idolatry is forbidden. The most obvious it that the
triune Creator is too great to attempt to visualize. There is no thing or
experience in mortal human existence that can represent the immortal and
invisible Creator. Thus, God sees any effort to “picture” Him (idolatry) as
rebellion. It does not matter how we may attempt to “see” God. “Any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth” are all totally incapable of expressing God’s
person.
Romans
1:18-32 reveals the heart of an idolater. Those who hold the truth in
unrighteousness will not glorify God as God, even though they know Him by the
creation itself. Instead, they change God’s inestimable glory into an earthly
creature and consciously change God’s truth into a lie. Thus, by open choice
and willing rebellion, idolators worship and serve the creature rather than the
Creator, thereby abandoning God for a despicable and unnatural lust, for an
ungodliness that, in turn, causes them to despise the very thought of God in
their knowledge. Ultimately, the only pleasure they can find is among other
idolaters.
Paul
taught the “philosophers” in Acts 17:22-29 that the heart of idolatry is
rejection of God as Creator. Idolatry, in any form or practice, strikes at the
heart of salvation, because “he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him” Hebrews 11:6.
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