First of all we must realize that spiritually speaking man is his own worst enemy.
There is a natural bias of mankind that must have all the answers, and when answers aren’t available man creates his own. This is why we have tens of thousands of religions and denominations within denominations. Man doesn’t have the ability or willingness to simply accept that the vastness of God as creator and Father of mankind will remain mysterious until we actually enter the presence of God personally.
Mans’s religious tendencies make him re-create God into an image he can comprehend and understand. This religious re-creation of God is made into the image of man and becomes a self-made idol to worship. Religion is all man-made and reproduces God into the idol of the particular religion’s approval, and the idol is worshipped as God.
The reality is that man is worshipping his own re-created God instead of allowing God to reveal Himself to and through the human. In this respect, the religious man is stealing from himself the revelation that he has no room for, his mind is set on his own idolatry that he falsely accepts as God. The religious spirit of man has caused him to defile his consciousness with the fake god of his own creation. Since the true God will not share His glory with their false self-created god the religious man remains godless even though he perceives himself as godly.
The religious man will establish his belief system around his image of the god he has created and chosen to worship….but it isn’t really God, but mans counterfeit. So today we see the reality of man’s counterfeit religions ALL man-made and all nothing more than idolatry. If we read scripture it is obvious that God abhorred idolatry and abhors it today. So today we see the result of religious men limiting the true God who cannot share His temple with their false self-created god i.e. their idol. The reality is that the earth could not withstand the explosive events of God vs god, the real vs the idol.
This brings to recall the servant Uzzah who was serving God under Judaism but was struck dead by God for having reached out to steady the ark of the covenant to keep it from falling. What the religious spirit of man cannot comprehend is that the ark representing the presence of God was threatened by the hand of a man trying to save it, and would have been better to have been allowed to fall to the ground altogether. There is a spiritual truth here that only the spiritual can discern. Every time man touches what is holy it is immediately made unholy. God was and is self-sustaining requiring no assistance from religious man whatsoever. The efforts of religious man to help God are quite comical and tragic as if the creator and sustainer of the universe and other worlds needed help from fallen mankind.
We see the religious idolatry of man throughout scripture coming against the true God. Aaron assisted the people God had rescued from slavery as they made themselves golden calves to worship, and they are still making golden calves today. The religious idolatry of that day angered the true God and still angers Him today. So we see the reality of the present-day religious system being the golden calves organizations have created in the place of the true living God.
Catholicism is rightfully identified as being filled with idolatry, the statues, the meaningless rituals BUT Protestantism is the daughter of the Catholic mother and simply changes the statues of worship to humans to worship. Religious people have replaced the true and living God for their favorite chosen priest, pastor, evangelist, or guru, but it remains idolatry.
Religious man is an idolator because the Christ founded no religion whatsoever. In the following parts, we will examine the false idols religious man has created and the damage he has done to himself and the entire world. The following parts will examine the chief man created counterfeit and many will be shocked and angry at the truth I will share…but I will share It anyway.