“He cuts down trees of a forest. He plants a fir,
and rain makes it grow.
He warms himself. Yea, he makes a fire and bakes bread.
But then, he makes a god and worships;
he makes it a graven image and bows down to it.
Half of it, he burns up in a fire.
Over that half, he cooks a roast, eats meat and is filled.
Moreover, he is warmed and says,
‘Ah! I am warm. I see the firelight.’
And the rest of it, he makes a god, his graven image.
He bows down to it and worships,
and prays to it, saying, ‘Save me!
For you are my god!’
They do not know, nor do they understand,
for He has besmeared their eyes
so that they cannot see, and their hearts,
so they cannot understand.
Yea, no one takes it to his heart,
nor has the knowledge or understanding to think,
‘Half of it, I burn up in a fire, and on its coals I also bake bread,
roast flesh, and then eat, and with the rest of it,
I make an abomination, that I might bow down to a block of wood.’
Communing with God through ashes‽
A deceived heart has led him astray, for it will not save his soul.”
Isaiah 44:14–20
We might say the same thing about water. Christians drink some of it, and with the rest, they wash their sins away. Or fabric. With some fabric they make blue jeans, and with some of it they weave holy garments. Or wafers. Some wafers they eat with peanut butter, and with other wafers they commune with God. Some light candles on a birthday cake, and others they light as prayers for dead people.
Communion with God through water and fabric? Communion with God through wafers and candles? Is there no knowledge of God anywhere? How can a man commune with the living God through dead things?
We have communion with God only through the Spirit of life, which Jesus died for us to have.
