Cagle Grams: Idolatry

"Little children, keep yourselves from idols." (1 John 5:21 KJV) When we think of idolatry, we think about pagans bowing down to graven images of stone, wood, gold, silver, iron and brass (Isaiah 2:8; Daniel 5:23). Idols are insensible and insentient (lacking perception, consciousness and animation). They have eyes but can't see, ears but can't hear, mouths but can't speak, noses but can't smell, hands but can't handle, feet but can't walk (Psalm 115:4-7). They can't help themselves or anyone else. But every idol began in the imagination with the idea of a god in an attempt at the ideal. The image on the ground represented the idea in the imagination (Ezekiel 14:3, 4). The power of the