Why did the bible order you not to worship other gods if there's only one?

Question

There must be lotsOr else why did he order you not to worship the other gods?

Answer 1

That's a very good point..I bet you won't get any honest answers to this.

Answer 2

First of all, Cereal Offender's answer is hilarious.

Why do you tell a child that 2 plus 2 equals 4 and not 5 if 2 plus 2 really does equal 4 then why do you have to be so strict about it.

There must be other answers if you have to tell me that 2 + 2 = 5 is incorrect.

Dude, you are a retard.

Revelation is progressive. The knowledge of God to which the Israelites were privy was not as well developed as that to which, say the Apostle Paul, had attained. Paul understood in the full development of his mind that there were no other gods but to try to articulate the reasoning and awareness behind his knowledge would exceed the capacity of your mind.

The Israelites were living in the midst of cultures in which you worshipped many so called gods all as different manifestations of power in the physical world. We know from the testimony of the prophets that there was no implication in Hebrew literature of even the possibility of other gods, because the prophets say things like, "and worship those which are not gods" and speak of worshipping wood and stone and the works of mens hands.

Saying you shall have no other gods before you is like saying the following.

In as much Israelites as I know that you have not known me nor understood me fully and have backslidden from me continually despite all of My works, I am just going to lay it out for you plain and simple. When you come into the land which you are going to possess and there begin to take up the pagan gods and denounce the God who saved you and who told you that He alone was God, do not say that you didn't know or were not told, because I am telling you here and now not to worship other gods.

It says in another place in the Torah or Pentateuch, however you like, "the Lord your God is the true God, He is the Living God, and an everlasting King."

How can you be so damn stupid as to take a commandment that makes into law the idea that there is no other God, and think you are clever in turning it around and pretending that it is suggesting exactly what it is prohibiting.

Get real bro. You're gonna'die like everyone else, even despite this massive epiphany you have just made known to all the pathetic silly religious people.

Answer 3

Basically every answer you will get from here will point to you that it was false gods or graven images not to be worshiped.
A better question you should have asked would have been about Genesis 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man" kjv
So who is the "us"?

Answer 4

You can make a God of anything. If you spend too much time with it, neglecting family, God, work, etc. you are in a sense worshipping it and God warns us not to worship other Gods including those that are self made.

Answer 5

“Those Who Are Called ‘Gods’”

WHEN the apostle Paul healed a lame man in Lystra, the people shouted: “The gods have become like humans and have come down to us!” Paul they called Hermes, and his companion Barnabas, Zeus. (Acts 14:8-14) In Ephesus the silversmith Demetrius warned that if Paul was allowed to continue to preach, ‘the temple of the great goddess Artemis would be esteemed as nothing.’—Acts 19:24-28.

People in the first century—like many today—worshiped “those who are called ‘gods,’ whether in heaven or on earth.” Paul, in fact, said: “There are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’.” However, he also explained: “There is actually to us one God the Father,” and “there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.”—1 Corinthians 8:5, 6.

Answer 6

Because He is A Jealous God And He Is A Jealous God Because Satan Made Him So Through Jealousy Fight Fire With Fire Satan Was Knowledge In Eden He Coned Eve With The Fruit Of Knowledge Now We Have Books Of Knowledge But The Truth Comes With The Spirit Fight Fire With Fire Satan Is Dealt With His Own Standards

Answer 7

If you go through Exodus, the Israelites saw power God while releasing them from Egypt through Moses, that time they saw they believed the power God working for them. Yet in chapter 32 of the same book, the people want the other gods when Moses dissappears for a while. People that time were aware of the history of their forefathers, the promises made to them and the miracles were very fresh to them, yet they wanted gods.

So it is very important to follow what God says, because anybody can make anything and call it as god.

What happens if your own child calls the other man as his father in front of you? How do you feel?

Even God is our Father and we have to worship Him alone.

Answer 8

Because the nations around them created idols or worshiped nature instead of worshiping God.

Still holds true today.

Answer 9

Your ignorance gives Atheists a bad name. From one Atheist to another, do a little research first next time. It is FALSE gods they're not to worship.

Answer 10

because before the whole moses thing people worshiped idols and natural elements. it does not imply that there are other gods, it just says that if you think their is more than one god you are wrong so what is the point in worshiping something that dosent exist.

Answer 11

Because Catholic Monotheism is born of scare tactics. Their God is a modern day Zeus that weilds lightning bolts, it was a way to get all the polytheists who believed in many all-powerful gods of things like war and death and lust to convert to Christianity, they basically just took all the Gods and lumped them all together into one religion to micromanage the different cultural sects and take all their money (since they would all belong to the same church).