I am just trying to share with you something I think you are missing. Like I believe you are us.. I am not assuming the worse in anything and I pray you do not think this.
Believe it or not. I do care for you. You have been kind and social in our interactions.. And seem to be open..
I truly believe something is being missed. And I get frustrated probably same as you. To me He speaks about idols made the works of men’s hands. I was studying this the other day because it is important to me to ask what is the works of men’s hands. It isn’t only wood, hay and stubble but stone, silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands,
wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Psalm 115:1-8 Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. [2] Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? [3] But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. [4]
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. [5] They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: [6] They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: [7] They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. [8] They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Psalm 135:15-18
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. [16] They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; [17] They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. [18] They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trust in them.
2 Kings 19:18-19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. [19] Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
To me significant is “They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: [7] They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. [8] They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusts in them.”
Because “they who trust in idols are like unto idols.” Makes me think of proselytizing. but I am trying share with you about silver and gold and stone is there too. As the work of men’s hands. Sometimes it is assumed I don’t like warnings. To me He lays out what the idol does, and those made like unto their idols. But then New Testament giving the warning about the body where the hands say it has no need of the feet. And the eyes have no need of the ears. The warning to me is when the eye has no need of the ears and the hands no need of the feet…then how will you hear, how will you see, how will you taste, how will you walk? The warning being that you cut off your own parts and in return spite your own selves. Or at least that is the warning I hear. To me the warning is an idol that can’t speak, can’t hear, can’t see, can’t walk...can’t smell, and can’t taste.
See to me this truly has significance. I don’t see how it is accidental that His speaking of idols lines up perfectly with a body that says to its parts it has no need of one another.