In the beginning God made man after His own likeness; now, since the Fall, man makes a god after his own likeness. That is, one that suits him. It’s a god of his own making. Like Aaron’s golden calf, we fashion it according to our desires, after our vain imagination.
The pagans of old had a plurality of gods and so do many professing Christians today. Some of the names given to these imitation gods are: the god of money; the god of sex; the god of power; the god of pleasure, etc. The one characteristic of each god is their permissiveness. You can do and be anything you want and still your created god will accept your worship.
But real Christians who worship the One True God can say of these would be Ephesian craftsmen, “Your god is not our God!”
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