How utterly ridiculous!
How dare the heathen equate faith in the true GOD with a blind
leap. It may be oxymoronic to suggest that any
thinking man is gullible, but he is. The truth is, the depravity of man
will lead him to believe anything if it serves to assuage his
conscience of sin. Decadent behavior is not just permissible to the
one who holds a 'flat earth' theology, it is
desirable.
This entire episode in
Exodus 32 is so telling of human
nature. These ingrates of Israeli decent didn't
necessarily want a golden calf, that was Aarons fancy.
They did however, long to distance themselves from GOD, Moses,
and the fire of their summit taking place atop Sinai ... ASAP!
Don't misunderstand, the calf would do; but it could have just
as easily been a silver Orangutan, if that would have been the
best Aaron came up with on short notice. Men don't mind
what means they employ to speed them away from the scene of
their sin, so long as they shed HIS holiness, and diminish their
conscience with every stride their idol takes. "Make us gods, which
shall go before us:" ... gods of our own
twisted invention, gods we drive, not a GOD to follow.
Look about us, thriving religious movements forged in the
fallen mind of fallen men. Masses of humanity in our
day, blinded by the flash of the latest calf smelting furnace to
come down the pike. "... as for
this Moses, ...we wot not what is become of him."
It is no mere coincidence that the fashioning of our own false
gods brings an amnesic denial of the true ONE.
Biblically speaking,
the Theory of Evolution began with Aaron, not Darwin. You can
crank out gods like Fords; but it will
matter little whether calves, apes, or beach amoeba are the
genesis of your hope after life, when the AUTHOR of real life ...
and death, you
meet. Spend the entirety of your days riding brashly upon
the calf of your choice, but know that at the end of your
nickel, the ride always drops you off right back at Sinai.
"Because that, when they knew GOD, they glorified him not as
GOD, neither were thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed
the glory of the uncorruptible GOD into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things. Who changed the truth of GOD into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the CREATOR,
WHO is blessed for ever. Amen."