Jon Collins

So a couple examples.

Habakkuk, in a little poem where he's making fun of people who trust their lives to idols, in Habakkuk 2.18, he says, What value is a pestle when its shaper is the one who pestled it?

Because the one who shaped his shaped object trusts in it, but it's an idol that can't talk.

You made it.

Why are you trusting in something that you made?

Now, in a way, I trust in things that humans make all the time.

In fact, I am right this moment.

And I'm talking into this black cylinder object that I'm just trusting.

Is doing its job.

Carries sound waves and converts it into ones and zeros in a computer.

And then I'm just trusting it all works.

So in that sense, it's fairly rational to trust in something that you made.

But I guess it would be irrational for me to trust in this chair if my house is burning down.

And to be like, chair, save me.

Like that's kind of more what Habakkuk's making fun of here.

Save me, oh chair.

Yes.

What really is the source of your life.

So that's Pestle.

Okay.