>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Reisinger [mailto:jreisinger@...]
>Sent: Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:07 PM
>To: soundofgrace@...
>Subject: [soundofgrace] idolatry
>
>If the word "image" is directly related to the word "imagination" would
it
>not follow that idolatry begins in the mind by imagining God to be
other
>than he has revealed Himself to be and the "graven" image is merely the
>expression of my idolatry? Likewise, if in preaching I proclaim God's
>character to be other than He has revealed himself to be am I not just
as
>guilty of idolatry as if I crafted an idol out of gold and held it up
for
>the people to worship? Does the Arminian commit idolatry when he
presents a
>god totally unlike the God of the Bible? The moment we start thinking
about
>God in any kind of terms beyond the Scriptures is not our "imagining"
God
>always going to be merely the product of our own imagination?  Are we
not
>creating a god in our own image (imagination).  JGR


God made man in His image.

Ever since man has tried to return the compliment!

Jeff