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‘Did Rachel Steal Her Father’s… Gods?’

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Nope, no idols here!

When Jacob finally left his service with Laban, his wife, Rachel, Laban’s daughter, stole Laban’s gods (Genesis Chapter 31). Jacob didn’t know, so when Laban came after them and demanded his gods back, Jacob said he could search the camp. Rachel sat on the loot, wrapped up in a camel blanket, and pretended she couldn’t move because it was her time of month.

Did Rachel Steal Her Father’s… Gods?

The Hebrew word here translated as “gods” or “idols” is terephim, and its meaning has grown obscure over the centuries.

But what about us? Do we have idols? Do we worship the work of our own hands? Are things more important to us than God?

The answers might prove embarrassing.

‘Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?’ (2017)

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Britain was in the nooze, another terrorist attack, when I wrote that headline. I should have asked, “Can any idols save anybody?” Because of course the UK is only one of many nations that has put its trust in idols.

Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?

Look at the stupid stuff we worship! Cell phones. Experts and their ridiculous opinions. “Education.” “Science.” All the work of our own hands, all completely impotent. And don’t forget the worship of The State! And government.

Does fornication count as a kind of idol worship? I guess it does if you do it because an idol says you should.

We have sinned deeply, thoroughly, and we need repentance and plenty of it.

Unless you really like the way the world is going, these days.

‘Is It Okay to Make Images?’ (Christian Bloggers)

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Once again our friend and colleague SlimJim tackles a claim of Biblical contradiction made by the Skeptic Annotated Bible.

Are we allowed to create images of living things, or explicitly forbidden by God’s word?

Bible Contradiction? Is it OK to make images?

I have a hard time imagining the mental landscape or the spiritual poverty of persons who devote themselves to “disproving the Bible.”

The images of cherubims on the Ark and on the curtains of the tabernacle–of course they were okay. What is not okay in the Bible is to create some kind of image and then worship it as an idol. Making images is permitted. Worshipping images is not.

Today people still worship the work of their hands–Science and technology, political parties, their own image in the mirror, etc., etc. We’re much too sophisticated to carve a face into a piece of firewood and then bow down to it.

But heathen foolishness is still very much with us.

 

‘”Transgender Preacher”–Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’ (2016)

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Worshiping the Golden Calf–some things never change

Has the whole world’s ruling class simply gone mad? Even the churches?

‘Transgender Preacher’–Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

The church I grew up in, I can’t go there anymore. They put up a sign outside, promising to be “welcoming and affirming.” I don’t think I want to know whom they’re welcoming or what they’re affirming. It would only make me cry.

So the Bible’s all wrong, is it? And for true spiritual nourishment, turn to our pop culture!

Please, God, deliver us out of this.

The Leftids’ Starship (‘Faith of the Faithless’)

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In the original Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston takes a one-way voyage in a starship because he hopes to find “something better” than our Earth.

Leftids still seek something better; and they have a starship, too.

Faith of the Faithless

Their voyage to Utopia will be aboard the all-powerful, all-devouring State. What would you even call it? Science and Government and brute force and madness all rolled into one!

But when you turn away from God, sooner or later you find an idol.

‘Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?’ (2017)

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What would it take for a government to admit its own policies were disastrously wrong?

We’re still waiting to find out.

Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?

But how about us, here in America? Have we put our trust in idols–the works of our own hands?

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‘When Fools Play God’ (2016)

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You have to study a lot of history, and be well up on current events, to understand why the Bible comes down so strongly on idolatry.

When Fools Play God

Because it’s the root of so much evil, that’s why! Really, read that “Humanist Manifesto II” sometime: these people are freakin’ crazy.

And it all starts with worshiping the work of your own hands.

Are You Ready for Your Brain Chip?

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“It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.”   –Psalm 100:3

Well, of course secular humanists don’t believe God made us, never mind made us in His image. So they see a clear path to go about re-making us. Humanity re-made by idiots and sinners: what could possibly go wrong?

Enter Elon Musk’s new “brain chip,” to be implanted in the human brain to “merge biological intelligence with machine intelligence” and help us “deal with the AI (Artificial Intelligence) apocalypse” (https://observer.com/2019/08/elon-musk-neuralink-ai-brain-chip-danger-psychologist/).

When all is said and done, this is a religious controversy. If you believe in God, and that He has revealed Himself to us in the Bible, then you know we’re already made and don’t need to be remade. If you don’t, then, hey, Humanist Manifesto II says we can now “direct the course of [human] evolution.”

And that’s how we get to utopia, folks–brought there by The Smartest People In The World. Forget salvation by Jesus Christ and the eventual establishment of His Kingdom on the earth. Don’t need it anymore. Just stop praying and start paying–’cause we’re gonna need to raise your taxes, big-time. Abolishing everything bad in the world will cost a lot of money! Oh–and it will also require you to obey your masters (because they’re so smart!)… or else.

Just for the record, there is no such thing as “machine intelligence.” Machines do only what humans program them to do. They can only simulate intelligence. Take away the perhaps questionable intelligence of the programmer, and machines do nothing at all.

It boils down to the worship of false gods, of idols, that we have created with our own hands. Idols are nothing. And those who worship them, as the Bible makes clear in several places, are “like unto them.”

No wonder our world is getting so screwed up.

The Poll Said ‘Do It’–So She Jumped

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Malaysian police are investigating whether a 16-year-old girl committed suicide after her social media followers voted for her to do it (http://news.trust.org/item/20190515091101-3ss0p).

The girl jumped off a roof to kill herself–after, police say, she polled her Instagram followers and 69% of them voted “Death.” Instagram hastens to claim that actually 88% voted “Life”–but by then it was too late.

In Malaysia, “abetting suicide” is a capital offense.

Has social media become an idol, a false god? Go ahead, tell me that it hasn’t. This is peer pressure on steroids.

We please the true God by loving one another and keeping His commandments. He would never ask us to kill ourselves. But false gods always demand much more of us than the Father ever does.

Are we ready to change our ways yet? Or would we rather slide a bit further down this slope?

Idolatry for Dummies

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At a recent rally, in Austin, Texas, for “Beto” (his real name’s Francis) O’Rourke, who wants to be the Democrats’ 2020 presidential candidate, somebody brandished a sign that said: “BETO IS OUR CHRIST” (https://theweek.com/articles/832532/dont-idolize-2020-pick).

This is not the first time leftids have tried to confer godhood on some creepy politician. Remember Obama worship? Remember him being hailed as “the One”? Remember that Newsweak cover showing him with a halo? I do wish I could un-see those things.

“Beto” told Vanity Fair that he was “just born to be in it”–in the presidential race, that is. But at least one jidrool out there thinks “Beto” was born to be something very much more than that.

This is idol-worship, and it’s as old as the hills. When people turn away from the true God who created them, and redeemed them through Jesus Christ, His Son, they wind up worshiping false gods.

“And the Lord shall scatter thee… thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.” Deuteronomy 28:64. He always warns us, and we never listen.

Our false gods are beyond wood and stone. Now they’re made of plastic, or of flesh and blood. Like “Beto.” Just some guy, no more fitted to be anybody’s god than the person standing behind you in the supermarket checkout line.

This always turns out badly. Go ahead, tell me of one time when it didn’t.

There are those who think this only happens because America’s Christianity is evaporating, leaving a religious vacuum to be filled by Science, the state and its minions, celebrities, electronic doodads, sports, money, and whatever else they can think of. But this is not so: the sin of idolatry goes back to the beginning of time. It is inherent in our fallen nature. One of those things we need a Savior for.

And that’s Jesus Christ. Not “Beto.”

How come none of these pseudo-messiahs ever breathes in enough sanity to say, “Whoa! It ain’t me, babe!”?

Foolishness doesn’t get any more foolish than this.