"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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Comments on "The Most Awesomely Best Youtube Video Ever":
3. Mark
- 01/06/2008 10:54 am CST
Do all you non farmers out there reading this blog and watching this video know that the first scene is that of a cow manure spreader? Yes its a machine that flings sh*t. Don't ask me how I know all about this machine! I'm not telling!
My question is this:
How can this mental image be used to describe, compare and contrast all the non Christian behavior in the blog-o-sphere???
5. gretchen from lifenut
- 01/07/2008 8:16 am CST
As the mom of four boys, I can see how this is an awesome, entrancing video.
But the music?! It's like a French Richard Marx.
Sorry. After a bit I fast forwarded it. The theme remained the same. All I could think of was that country music song of a couple years back, the one having the line "She thinks my tractor's sexy".