Rejecting the Nation's Symbol

They have turned aside quickly
out of the way which I commanded them:
they have made them a molten calf,
and have worshipped it,
and have sacrificed thereunto.

- Exodus 32:8



We know that an idol is nothing in the world,
and that there is no other God but one.

- 1 Corinthians 8:4



Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

- 1 John 5:21