The First Commandment says:  "You shall not make for yourself a divine image with any form . . . " (Ex 20:4 LEB see Biblegateway)."  Jay, are you not capable of understanding that the formulation you just recited is an idol? You have fashioned this image or received it. Idols are 'formed' most clearly not in clay or stone but in words, especially words memorized and regurgitated in a sing-song voice to proselytize others. I believe the First Commandment is designed to make you THINK and realize compliance with it can never be achieved because every conceptualization we have of God is inadequate, thus short of the real thing, and thus a 'god before me.' That you call your god 'Him' is telling.  Inadequate some would say.