"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"

[ignoramus]

  God was speaking about all the man made idols, those of wood and stone, like wise money and fame. Anything that's put first in one's life over God is an idol.

GC

That's a very telling point GC!

The way I see it, God needed to stress this subtle but important difference so much that he made a commandment out of it.
Because it would be so easy to confuse those fake gods in the form of statues and other idolatry with the real McCoy because to the untrained eye, they ALL act and interact with the world as IF they are all false and indistinguishable from each other!
That's the point we're trying to make. Thank you.