No Room for Idolatry in Genesis

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It is very evident that if the truth that GOD is the mighty Creator were grasped, man would not worship the creature. And yet men, with all the evidence of God's " eternal power and Godhead " as seen in creation, have turned their backs upon God, their foolish hearts are darkened, and their imaginations vain. They have "changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed 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 forever" (Rom. 1:23, 2523And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:23)
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (Romans 1:25)). Because of this God has given them up to uncleanness. We have ample witness of this in heathen lands, where little girls are dedicated to the temple service, in reality brought up as prostitutes to serve the lusts and evil propensities of the heathen priesthood. We can see it when we behold men worshipping the beetle, the ibis, the bull, the serpent, the sun. The degradation of heathendom is ample testimony to the Satanic source of this departure from God. 1 Cor. 10:19-2019What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. (1 Corinthians 10:19‑20) clearly shows that behind the heathen idol is demon worship. That there is need for this warning is seen in that so late as the Apostle John's first epistle (A.D. 90), it closes with the solemn admonition, " Little children, keep yourselves from idols."