Individual men have always sought alternatives to God. Some of these alternatives have gained traction and substantial followings. These alternatives can be anything as long as they meet the requirements. They must look somewhat like the truth (as long as you don't look directly at them). They must not require us to align ourselves with the truth. Some have figured out that the easiest way to make a clean break from the truth is for each man to serve as his own god. We convince and console ourselves by reading Nietzsche and Derrida. We attempt to deconstruct what we know to be true by the single most inherently self-contradictory thought that I have ever heard: "there is no truth". In making this declaration we pretend that we have outsmarted God and have thrown off the constraints of His natural law. Romans 1:21-23 explains: "For even though they know God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man..."
When nothing existed, one God spoke and the universe and everything in it came to be. When the Philistines brought the ark into the temple of Dagon, only one God still stood in the morning. When the prophets of Baal called on their god and Elijah prayed, only one God answered, and He answered by fire. When the Assyrian army conquered kingdom after kingdom, only one God stopped them from entering His city. When Nebuchadnezzar and Darius tried to set themselves up as gods, only one God saved His servants from their hands and showed Himself supreme. When all of humanity cried out for freedom and deliverance from our bondage to death, only one God answered