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Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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Idolatry's Corrupting Power
Commentators explain that making an idol is a fundamentally "corrupting" act. It corrupts the worshipper's understanding of the invisible God by reducing Him to a physical object. More profoundly, scholars note that it corrupts the person. Humans were created to have dominion over the world, so worshipping any part of creation reverses God's intended order and debases the individual.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Lest you corrupt ... and make. —The connection between idolatry and corruption is twofold. First, it changes “the glory of the
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lest you corrupt yourselves And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more …
Presbyterian
The power and love of God toward Israel are presented here as the basis and reason for a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although ther…
