“Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.”
The continuation and escalation—'He takes the rest of it and makes a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, "Save me, for you are my god!"'—depicts the moment when wood becomes god through human declaration. The contrast between practical use (warming, baking) and religious use (worship, prayer) occurs without any change in the material substance. The prayer 'Save me, for you are my god!' represents the apex of idolatry's absurdity: the human creates the god, then appeals to it for salvation. This verse captures the logical incoherence at idolatry's heart.
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