In the Second Commandment God warns us: You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for 1, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me, and keep My commandments (Exodus 20:4-6). The text clearly teaches that the greatest evidence of hatred toward God is the refusal to accept Him as He has revealed Himself in Scripture. The converse is also true. The greatest evidence of love toward God is the acceptance of God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture. Just as the degree to which we accept revelation is the measure of our love of God, even so the degree to which we follow “reason,” “intuition,” or “feelings” instead of revelation is the measure of our hatred of God. Any attempt to construct a deity on the basis of what is palatable to our rational or aesthetic tastes is sheer unmitigated idolatry. Here is no middle ground, no two ways about it, no compromise on this point. Either we accept God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture or we are idolaters. This position is quite humbling to fallen man. We don’t like the idea of God’s telling us what He is like. We would much rather make up our own ideas of what God is. Neither do we like the idea of God’s commanding us to obey Him according to what He says is right or wrong. We would much rather make up our own ideas of what is right and what is wrong. Robert Morey
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:08:36 +0000
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