Protestants attacking Orthodoxy with accusing us of violating the 2nd commandment should know that they violate it themselves by picturing Christ Who is Almighty God and to Whom is all glory. Amen I am not anti-Protestant-reactionist. I believe in being saved by faith alone, in scripture sufficiency and in no way approve many of our apologists’ attitude towards them
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The Origin of Idolatry
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According to St. Paul, idolatry constitutes an “exchange” of the Creator for the creature which brings about an “exchange” of the “truth about God for a lie” (Romans 1:24-25) rendering service to the creature rather than the Creator. All idolatry is fundamentally self-worship. The creation is a single, integrated whole destined for unification in terms of man’s headship. In the divine plan, the head of the world is called to gaze upon God and so refract the glory of God into the world. By turning inwards to the world rather than upon God, man cuts the circuit by which divine life flows to the universe. Thus, Isaiah 40-55 frequently recalls the sovereignty of God as the creator of the world and contrasts this with the human fashioning of idols (Isaiah 44:9-11). Idolatry is fundamentally the embrace of a lie: that the cosmos is self-contained and can be known without reference to God as its supreme principle. This, moreover, is why Genesis 11 describes how the builders of Babel sought to constitute a “name” for themselves (Genesis 11:4). As the world is made through the Word, the name of a thing denotes its principle of being- and it is a fundamental principle running through all reality that names are not self-endowed: even God is named in relation, being known as Father through His begetting of the Word.
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