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Introduction:
Context of 10 Commandment:
Living within Grace
“And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
“And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
Show Graph of the Heidelberg Catechism
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Part I: Can you break this commandment?
Can you break this commandment?
Yes and no
Douma: “Baal, Asherah, Chemosh, Molech, Mammon, Zeus, Neptune, Woden, and Thor do not exist.
But man’s yearning for prosperity, passionate love, power… existed and still exist.”
According to : YES!
According to : NO!
Baal, Asherah, Chemosh, Molech, Mammon, Zeus, Neptune, Woden, and Thor do not exist.
But man’s yearning for prosperity, passionate love, power… existed and still exist.”
vss.
6, 8
The idols themselves are now considered ancient near eastern mythology, but what they represented remains contemporary southeastern idolatry.
You shall Not
Human Desire gods: prosperity, passionate love, power…
You shall have no other gods before [my face]
Nothing should get between us and God.
shows us how unsustainable and unreasonable it is to put other things between us and God…
Part II: Vs. 9-11: Idol Creation: An Enterprise of Emptiness
Part II:
Vs. 9-11
That seed remains which can in no wise be uprooted: that there is some sort of divinity; but this seed is so corrupted that by itself it produces only the worst fruits.
From this, my present contention is brought out with greater certainty, that a sense of divinity is by nature engraven on human hearts.
(1.4.4)”
Vs. 9-11
Idol Creation: An Enterprise of Emptiness
Tohu:
Actual idol creators are tohu
Tohu, vabohu= Formless and void
Formless and void
Formless creators can’t form something formful.
As flesh and blood, as human and not God, we can’t create religion.
The formless can’t give form to the divine!
That’s opposite!
Profitable
They invest is treasurers which are worthless [not profitable]
They invest is treasurers which are worthless [not profitable]
Defenders of idols= blind, ignorant of their shame
Theme: Formless and depreciating
There’s nothing to gain or profitable!
Idol creation doesn’t add to life.
What is it that you idolize?
Urgency to connect to people stuck in other religions
Idol creators are nothing
“As experience shows, God has sown a seed of religion in all men….
(1.4.2) That seed remains which can in no wise be uprooted: that there is some sort of divinity; but this seed is so corrupted that by itself it produces only the worst fruits.
From this, my present contention is brought out with greater certainty, that a sense of divinity is by nature engraven on human hearts.
(1.4.4)”
So if this is true, it means that idol creation is an enterprize that is more common than we think!
“As experience shows, God has sown a seed of religion in all men….
(1.4.2) That seed remains which can in no wise be uprooted: that there is some sort of divinity; but this seed is so corrupted that by itself it produces only the worst fruits.
From this, my present contention is brought out with greater certainty, that a sense of divinity is by nature engraven on human hearts.
(1.4.4)”
Formless and depreciating are two words that remind me of my experience visiting the Ganges River in the world famous city of Varanasi, India.
Journal:
This was perhaps the most interesting day of my life.
The Ganges experience in Varanasi is in many incomprehensible, full of strange practices, cult rituals, ceremonial washings, cremation ceremonies, filth, colours, and smells.
It was the most bazaar thing, and saddest thing, and darkest thing I’ve ever experienced.
So there we are, getting off the bus surrounded by thousands of people on a narrow street making their trip to bathe in the Ganges River.
Beggars line the streets, one after another after another...
There is a hopelessness to their begging that is so different than beggars in Canada.
There is a hopelessness in their eyes, an awareness that this begging activity is something they’ll be doing for the rest of their life… It’s all aimless and empty.
Why?
Because there is a religious spirituality to their begging… That’s what they do, that’s what they are.
They will beg until they die.
Arms continue to stretch, but their hands grasp air and emptiness.
[As we get to the River] A man looks my way and waves.
Dips and waves.
He is so proud to show off his god- the River Ganges- to me.
He’s immersing himself with holy water... Before we got to the river, I assumed there would be a sense of shame for those who wash based on me watching them and taking pictures of them.
The opposite is true.
He’s looking at me and my ignorance: “You ignorant, stupid Westerner.
I wave and smile because I am one with god, where you sit on a boat on top of her...
A mother dips her child into the water.
A man looks my way and waves.
Dips and waves.
He is so proud to show off his god- the River Ganges- to me.
He’s immersing himself with holy water.
The Bible tells me that baptism is a dying and rising with Christ because of what Christ did for us.
He believes the opposite.
It is he himself who immerses himself into better karma (the opposite of grace).
He cleanses himself in order to appease the god.
Good karma, good works.
Please the gods, deny yourself.
Before we got to the river, I assumed there would be a sense of shame for those who wash based on me watching them and taking pictures of them.
The opposite is true.
He’s looking at me and my ignorance: “You ignorant, stupid Westerner.
I wave and smile because I am one with god, where you sit on a boat on top of her.
On our little boat trip on the Ganges, we travel up river, then back down river.
What held this whole experience together are factories of death: crematories.
They burn bodies all day long.
They burn the dead bodies to the point that it’s shrivelled but still recognizable.
The fire stops, and loved ones carry it to the foot of the Ganges.
They step down ladders and place this body that can no longer float deep down into the Ganges.
The Ganges.
The god that will preserve a corps, but cannot give life… Death and destruction.
Hopelessness and darkness.
It’s a spiritual descent.
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