Not only did God demonstrate that even a hand picked people couldn't fulfill the law through their own effort, He showed His greatest good could be accomplished through the hard-hearted, dare I say evil, people they became.
Don't discount idol worship as an abstraction. It's the opposite. Evil spiritual beings exist and idol crafting was a means to give them a mouthpiece to deal with them. No one thought the carved wood was literally a god, but it was an avenue for power. The idols are fewer today, but corporate and industrial in scale.
Don't discount idol worship as an abstraction. It's the opposite. Evil spiritual beings exist and idol crafting was a means to give them a mouthpiece to deal with them. No one thought the carved wood was literally a god, but it was an avenue for power. The idols are fewer today, but corporate and industrial in scale.
100% agree, the idols then and now are vectors of demonic power.
Not only did God demonstrate that even a hand picked people couldn't fulfill the law through their own effort, He showed His greatest good could be accomplished through the hard-hearted, dare I say evil, people they became.
Don't discount idol worship as an abstraction. It's the opposite. Evil spiritual beings exist and idol crafting was a means to give them a mouthpiece to deal with them. No one thought the carved wood was literally a god, but it was an avenue for power. The idols are fewer today, but corporate and industrial in scale.
100% agree, the idols then and now are vectors of demonic power.