I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces. I have slaughtered you with my words, threatening you with death. [Lamentations 2:14a]
My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods! [Hosea 6:10(b)]
God refers to those other gods, whose instructions people opt to follow, instead of following His, as "no-gods." God’s instruction are plain and simple: Extend love to one another through compassion, kindness, and mercy:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [John 1:1]
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. [John 1:14]
Again. Jesus’s death and resurrection on Calvary was not...