Q. May I ask you whether it is all right to visit the Pyramids of Gaza? Because of all other man made things, the pyramids stand in awe of assumed human creation. But if we take this further, it looks as if it is true this was made by the pagans for pagans. So if Scripture says to stay away from unholy things, how do we apply this?
I think the issue you are asking about is equivalent to a question that Paul addresses in his first letter to the Corinthians. They wanted to know whether it was all right to eat food that had been offered to idols. The simplest form of their question was whether they could eat meat they had bought in the market if it had previously been offered to idols. Paul responded, ”Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, ‘The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.’” Paul explains that idols are not real gods. The gods that people worship through the idols do not actually exist. So nothing happens to the meat when it is offered to an idol. The animal that the meat came from is part of God’s creation, and so the meat belongs to God and can be received as a gift from God.
The Bible is creation-affirming and culture-affirming. It teaches and shows that we can enjoy and appreciate God’s creation and the things that humans create. Humans bear the image of God, and so they are creative like God. The pyramids, as you say, are a spectacular human creation, and I believe we can appreciate the accomplishment they represent and their monumental beauty.
But in his letters, Paul does caution believers about two dangers associated with this. The first is that we must not worship and serve the creature rather than the creator. Our love and devotion belong to God alone, and we celebrate his creation and human creations as a way of honoring him as the source of all creativity. The second caution is that supernatural forces of evil actually do exist, and when people worship created things rather than God, those evil forces are lurking in the background. Paul says to be especially careful not to cause anyone who has recently come out of such a background to fall back into it. So if your visit to Egypt were going to cause someone who had recently gotten free of occult practices to get interested in Egyptian spells and charms, then for the sake of that person, you might forego or postpone it. But if you are simply going as an interested tourist, appreciating human history, culture, and architecture, and learning about an ancient civilization, I don’t see a problem with it. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,” and that includes the pyramids.
Good Question 