Does God listen to idol worshippers? | The Old Path

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Does God listen to idol worshippers? | The Old Path

Bible readings: 2 Corinthians 6:14, Habbakuk 2:18-19, Psalms 115:4,8

We are aware of people that practice idol worship. We bring into consideration a question: Does God listen to these idol worshippers? We take our first bible reading from the book of 2 Corinthians 6:14. It reads:

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

When you go down to the last verse, it keeps making comparisons between God's ways and the devil's and how they have nothing in common. Righteousness is the way of God, while wickedness is the way of the devil. Just as light is of God and darkness is of the devil.

Those involved in idol worship aren't walking in the path of God. God has no relationship with such people. You can't say God listens to these people when they carry out their practices because they are doing it unto something that isn't living, and our God is a living God.

Let's take a look at the book of Habbakuk 2:18 and 19:

(18) Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
(19) Woe to him who says to Wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.”

This scripture is telling us the futility of placing faith in idols. They are man-made God's. They have no life in them, nor do they have breath. The only being capable of giving breath to a creation and causing it to come to life is God. And idol can do nothing for you.

God is highly against idols and idol worshippers. It is an abomination to Him. God derives no pleasure in this act. An idol has no value except that which the creator attached to it. Let's look at Psalms 115:4 & 8:

(4) But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.
(8) Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Let's say an idol is made up of silver and gold. The only value of that idol is the worth of those mineral resources, nothing more. There's nothing it can do for you when you make prayers to it because it doesn't have that capability.

God listens to His own, and idol worshippers are not His own because they have rejected Him by choosing idols.

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