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How can we be so certain about God…
when none of us has seen Him?
We speak like witnesses to a mystery
as if heaven handed us a manual
with our names written in bold at the top.
“This is the right way.”
“This is the only way.”
“Everything else is idolatry.”
But who told us that certainty belongs to us?
Christians are quick to call traditional religion idol worship.
Quick to condemn unfamiliar rituals.
Quick to reject what doesn’t look like Sunday morning.
If it uses oil — it’s idolatry.
If it uses incense — it’s idolatry.
If it uses sacrifices — it’s idolatry.
If it uses symbols — it’s idolatry.
Yet open the Bible…
Altars were built.
Oil was poured.
Animals were sacrificed.
Incense was burned.
Hands were lifted.
Objects were touched.
Stones were stacked.
Blood was spilled.
And God accepted it.
So, what changed?
Was it the practice?
Or was it the people practicing it?
Because everyone is operating on faith.
No one has seen God and returned with proof.
No one has mapped heaven.
No one has measured the voice of God.
We believe.
They believe.
The difference is method.
And maybe idolatry isn’t what we think it is.
Maybe idolatry is not the object…
but the obsession.
Not the material…
but the priority.
Anything you place above God becomes an idol.
Money can be an idol.
Power can be an idol.
Even religion can be an idol.
Even certainty can be an idol.
And here is the question no one wants to ask:
If some of these practices existed before the Bible…
and some appear inside the Bible…
Where did they come from?
How did people who never read Scripture
learn methods that later appeared in Scripture?
Maybe God spoke to more people than we think.
Maybe heaven was never limited by geography.
Maybe what we call “idol worship”
was once someone else’s encounter with the divine.
Look at the world.
Religious differences have divided nations,
broken communities,
and fueled wars.
And yet the same Christianity that claims one truth
has hundreds of denominations
disagreeing about doctrine, practice, and interpretation.
So which one is right?
If truth is one…
why are interpretations many?
Maybe the problem is not faith.
Maybe the problem is certainty without humility.
Because none of us owns God.
None of us speaks for God completely.
None of us knows the full mind of God.
So before we call another man’s worship idolatry…
maybe we should ask ourselves a harder question:
Are we worshiping God…
or are we worshiping
our version of Him?