The Bible describes idols as human inventions, “the work of human hands” (Ps. 115:4; 135:15). Their “craftsmen are only human” (Isa. 44:11). Those who worship idols “bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made” (Isa. 2:8). Why would Christians want to build their lives on any idea that is a product of human thinking—“the wisdom of the world” (1 Cor. 1:20)? The human heart hungers for a truth that is transcendent and eternal. God has “set eternity in the human heart” (Eccles. 3:11 NIV).
