This is one of those cases in which WWJD works out to be a pretty solid bit of guidance. Formulating a Christian response to idolatry is not a difficult task. So, the fact that this statue is dedicated to Satan adds nothing new and only serves to make what God has seen all along obvious to everyone: There are satanic idols all around us.ģ. “What the pagans sacrifice is to demons.” Every golden Buddha in your city is a statue to Satan, as well as every Hindu idol. There, the Apostle Paul told us that statues of Zeus and Aphrodite and Jupiter and Artemis were actually satanic statues. I’ll take a living God over a dead statue any day of the week.Ģ. Christianity still won, and won decisively. The Roman pagans had all the statues and all the monuments. The same was true for Christians, who confronted Roman paganism not by building their own temples and statues but by championing the divine plan to make each believer a temple of the Holy Spirit and a monument to the power of the gospel. The result was that Israel entirely conceded the arena of religious statues to all of the surrounding idolatries (or, at least, was supposed to do so). God withdrew us from that competition when He gave Moses the Second Commandment (Exodus 20:4-6: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image”). We are not in a monuments-and-statues race. Time Magazine (and everyone else) reports that the Satanic Temple in Detroit has unveiled a bronze statue of Baphomet, “the totem of contemporary Satanism.” How ought American Christians respond to this?ġ.
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