Analysis of Idolatry

“…unfolding the knowledge of the Humanself and the God within” 
[quoted from a New Age website]

When the world's prophets speak, they will say there are gods in “God”.  All gods are embodiments of the “Godhead’s” expression of himself to man.  {Read: “into man”, that is, into the “Humanself”.  The final idolatry anti-Torah doctrine being, then, that not only is “Jesus” the incarnation of “God”, so is everyone and all that is the “Humanself”.}

Idolatry is an art, or a form of art that allows the “artist” or “art lover”, without coming right out and shamefully boasting that they are “God”, to pseudo-modestly “sit in the place of God telling themselves that they are God”.

Not all art pretends to express an absolute.  When art does pretend to express an absolute it presents an artwork that allows the artist and the art lover to engage in the sensation that they have the spark of God within them.  When they gaze on the artwork they are in effect telling themselves that they are an incarnation of God.

It is not as much, then, in the mis-imagination of God that the work of art represents that makes it an instrument of idolatry as it is the art of it itself, the art of pretending to express the absolute.  When this is understood, it becomes easier to understand how idolatry can take place with instruments created in the heart and mind which never even see external expression.

The sculpture, or other three dimensional life form representation, is only the most literal form of god-art, or instrument of idolatry.  It is really the artist’s thought which comprises the instrument of the idolatry, and the idolatry itself is essentially the choice of the innermost spiritual element of the soul to conceive an expression of G-d out of its own sense of self.

So we see that idolatry is the very nature of the sinful, unrepentant heart.  It is the choice within the sinner to subject all truth and reality to its own final judgment, to determine its own existential identity and affirm or disaffirm the word and commandment of God on that basis, as if being one having that divine existential right.

Rather than being the source of idolatry for the Christian world, Yehoshua is the true and only destroyer of idolatry in the Messianic world.  For it will be shown that he alone destroys the true source of idolatry in the nations, indeed in the natural mind!  For the sinner's sense of self is actually the only idol there is, and faith in the salvation that Yehoshua has revealed for covenant Israel is the true foundation of the Messianic world.