Subtle Idolatry I: God is perceived performance

"It is a subtle form of idolatry to allow the conduct of God to supplant and supersede the character of God; the performance of God to be the basis of the Person of God."

For it is the basing, the worship of God upon the senses and the natural mind. It is religion -- still man-made and worthless at its core. Because it is going from man to God. It is the production of an image of God in our image, in the confines of our mind. God is constrained, boxed in. He is only what we can perceive, interpret, and understand. Any god such as this is NOT the God revealed in the Bible nor in the Person of Christ Jesus.

It is the worship of a god who just does for us, for we only know and acknowledge what it has done. God is an active God but God is not just activity. His activity is His character manifested. Therefore God is not just a force, though He is powerful. He is Who He is. He is the great I AM. His doing comes from His being.