American Idol
"It may surprise you to learn that this is the most repeated commandment of all the Ten Commandments in the entire Bible. The word "idol" or "idolatry" appears over 220 times in the Bible. There is more denunciation of idolatry that any other sin you find in God's Word.
"For God idolatry is public enemy #1. If God had a most wanted list idolaters would be at the top. The reason is simple. Everybody worships some kind of god. Everybody believes in some kind of deity. It may be nature, science, or the god of self, but everybody worships some god. That is why the Bible preaches against idolatry, not atheism.
"Here is something else you may not know. The second commandment is the only commandment where God says that those who break it actually hate Him. If you worship a false god, if you worship anything other than God or you attempt to worship the right God the wrong way, then you hate God according to this commandment.
"I realize that there is one commandment today that people in the 21st century think is totally out of date, totally irrelevant, and absolutely not applicable to where we are. It would be the second commandment. I realize there are people who believe the Ten Commandments are arbitrary anyway; they were for a different time and a different culture and they really don't make any sense today."
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Keywords: ten commandments, second commandment, idols, first
