Idols, Icons, Images

Q: What’s so bad about idolatry?

A: 1^st No idol is the one true living GOD.

Isaiah 42:8 I am the Lord (YHWH)! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.

2^nd They’re hollow images-plastic.

Psalm 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see; 6 they have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but they cannot smell; 7 they have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but they cannot walk; nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

3^rd They’re lifeless.

Psalm 135:18 Those who make them will end uplike them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

 

John 44 Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” YHWH