Thou shalt have no other gods before me. They were to have nothing to do with other gods. Notice the personal relationship that God makes with them. I am Thy God. Some gross idolatry.
Man is incurably religious.
The religious instinct has been planted deep within man ' s nature. Even in the heathen jungles men believe in God. They have a hunger in their hearts for God and if they don ' t know the true God, they make a god and bow down before it. The Greeks, noted for their science and art, were guilty of the grossest idolatry. Down through the ages men have worshiped the sun, moon, stars, rivers, birds, fish, and Brahma cows in India.