for restoration.”4 He does not mean this narrowly, as if lovers of money will turn into money themselves. He means instead that if we worship things other than God, then we, like figures of stone and wood, will become blind and deaf to God. This, in turn, will lead to the corruption of the worshiper as God’s image-bearer. Idolatry, then, is simply beholding and adoring the wrong thing. Yet the true danger of idolatry is far subtler than we think. We know the struggle for Western Christians is not
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