Man was made in the image of God....but an idol is made in the image of man.
The folly of idolatry.....
“All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who speak up for them are blind: they are ignorant to their own shame...........’The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with his hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm”.....”The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses....HE SHAPES IT IN THE FORM OF A MAN, A MAN IN ALL HIS GLORY THAT IT MAY DWELL IN A SHRINE.”
He cuts down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak....It is man's fuel for burning; some of it he takes to warm himself, he kindles a fire a bakes bread.
BUT...he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes and idol and bows down to it.
Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood? He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him.” Isaiah 44
Though this is old testament..the depiction of how images and idols are made is very much the same....they are made from wood,plastic,ceramic,plaster....and we use these substances for garbage bags...toys...buildings..appliances and hosts of other things...yet somehow they are transformed in the mind of one praying before them to represent something other than what they are.... “.....worthless before God.
Amen