Contemplative Bible Reading

Romans 1:22-23 (New English Translation)

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Imagine the fools: the are putting God into little statues of things they know like people, bird, animals, and reptiles. How could anyone transform the infinite God into a little category of familiar things.

I am glad we, even Christians we, don’t do foolish things like that. oooops. I guess sometimes we put God into the image of a Santa Claus (be nice not naughty and you get good stuff). I guess sometimes we put God into the image of a fantasy family father. I guess I could go on with how we mean well, but still start a conversation with, “God is like fill-in-the-blank.”

Well, we can console ourselves with, “That is just a figure of speech, you know?” but we are doing just like those people mentioned in Romans.