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The wisest plainly discover the vague wanderings of their minds when they express a wish for any kind of Deity, and thus offer up their prayers to unknown gods. And then, in imagining a manifold nature in God, though their ideas concerning Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Minerva, and others, were not so absurd as those of the rude vulgar, they were by no means free from the delusions of the devil. We have elsewhere observed, that however subtle the evasions devised by philosophers, they cannot do away with the charge of rebellion, in that all of them have corrupted the truth of God. For this reason, Habakkuk, (2: 20,) after condemning all idols, orders men to seek God in his temple, that the faithful may acknowledge none but Him, who has manifested himself in his word.

Some things never change. I believe that the desire for man to build a god of his own preference is a result of the fall. Adam and Eve desired to be their own gods, Cain desired to set the rules for sacrifice..From the earlist of time man has not wanted a relationship with the real God..

Adam and Eve desired to be their own gods, Cain desired to set the rules for sacrifice..From the earlist of time man has not wanted a relationship with the real God..

Did they want to be their own gods and throw off, what they may have perceived as, God's yoke? Or did they want to be LIKE God so they could, they thought, be that much closer to Him?

Ge 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.