Tim Mackie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you want to find a connection to Yahweh God, it's other humans.
This is another example of a huge leap forward in thought.
So idolatry now I'm realizing has two very different problems.
One is when I usually think of idolatry, I think of
I think of making an object, giving it divine authority in my life, and so neglecting Yahweh as life.
And that's what the choice between Baal or Yahweh kind of represents, like which God.
But what seems to be kind of more the focus here, potentially, or at least equally, is
not trying to replace Yahweh, but just reducing Yahweh, is this impulse to say, I wanna understand Yahweh.
I wanna do it in a way that feels safe and controllable.
So let me create a vehicle to do that, that kind of,
simplifies or domesticates or reduces, and that is also really dangerous.
And so both of those are a form of idolatry, right?