Sentences with phrase «gods as idols»

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And even if I have genuinely experienced God's grace, the moment I begin to regard grace as something I can use, I have turned from God and substituted an idol of my own making.

The OP describes searching for God as if He were looking for something like an idol.

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Actually, an idol is anything that has replaced God as first in our hearts.

And Mohamed destroyed all the idols but kept Mecca as a pilgrimage for the only one God that worshipped Abraham.

That is justification as mysterious as the God that must hide itself to avoid being an idol.

Because we have made an idol of God (we sin), we do not trust Him, and we die as a consequence of our lack of trust (addressed at the end of Hebrews 3; sin is unbelief).

Thus, as Paul says in Romans 1, the primary reason we fail to give honor to God is that we suppress the truth of God; we worship a distorted understanding of God; an idol.

According to the Bible, there is no reconciliation with false gods, with idols, with the powers that rule the world, with «the world» as it is; but there is reconciliation with all men.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

23 Rebelling against God or disobeying him because you are proud is just as bad as worshiping idols or asking them for advice.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

Perhaps man wasn't ready for the redeemer in the beginning, shortly after the beginning man spread across the earth and began to worth ship idols and false gods and perhaps they didn't want a savior and as we know God gave man free will.

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Elizabeth Scalia is the author of Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life and the managing editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos.com, where she blogs as The Anchoress.

Some Calvinists argue that if God had not specially intervened in the life of Abram, Abram would have ended up as an idol worshipper, just like His father.

«Yes, where will one stop the criticism of idols, and where will one ever be able to say the true God actually resides if, as Maritain writes, we pay tribute to false gods «every time we bow before the world.»

I dropped «christianity» from my life starting as a child after I read some childrens bible that showed «God» destroying some people who were worshipping an «idol» — Even at the age of 8 I knew it was wrong to kill those who do nt follow your beliefs.

How about, an erroneous concept of God (an idol), erroneous interpretation of the bible, and a concept of the «church» as an organization or something other than consisting of all of the believers in the world.

When history and archaeology shows that the «god» of one of the religions started off as an idol and another of the relgions says that «god» says not to worship idols, it is unmistakably clear that the gods are not the same.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

This was against totems, idols, and statues that people made of their gods which they then worshipped as if it was the actual god.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

So the Psalmists spoke of the gods of the nations as idols, and unambiguously proclaimed that the LORD their God was quite unlike the gods of other peoples.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

Since Girard's thesis is that the gospel of Jesus Christ has inexorably through the ages taken rationales for violence away from us by revealing the gods who demand violence as idols, the West has finally reached the point of secularity, the point at which the divine justifications drop away altogether.

This reversal makes something magical of the brazen serpent and a destroyed idol of the golden calf, affirming that the eternal God is the enemy of images, at least as early as Amos and Hosea.

I don't see entertainers as idols, but people who became celebriites because people paid money to be entertained, but no person in my eyes has God - like status, because of money, fame, possessions, and alot of PR (public relations).

As with meat that had been offered to idols, there was nothing in the wearing or not wearing of the head covering itself that was wrong, but the rebellion against God.

The religion of the «name» is opposed to that of the «idol,» as the religion of the God who is coming is opposed to the religion of the God of present manifestation.

Christians may never stop, they may never set up anything as an idol, until the infinity of ineffable love reveals itself and God himself confronts them face to face.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

One of their believes is that an idol that they made by either mud or metal or any substances and decorate them nicely and they go to this piece of objects and asks as they are asking God Almighty and they know that this piece of metal has no power to even move itself or to same itself if someone attempts to break it... how would this piece of metal respond to one prayer?

The story of man is strewn with the corpses of his gods just as the victorious march of Sennacherib was littered with shattered idols.

Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they made and named as in Greek mythology...

like hindu with due respect to hindu community that they go and ask to their idols or monkeys and so on, buddists go and ask a statue of buddah, sikh asks guru nanak, catholic asks marry and dead human, christian in general asks a human and the list could go on and on... how do you know that which one is being answered by The True God... all can't be correct or true... as Truth can't to more than one but ONE only....

God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity as bearer of the divine image.

God was known to all people in the very beginning, but as time went on some chose not to pursue Him, and instead fixed their eyes on some other idol.

well for starters, in jewish lore there is not spirit of god, there is god... so what we have here is a creation by man to explain something that they view as important but missing something... what do you suppose that is... perhaps its what they were worshiping in the first place... according to the 610 laws one must follow or burn is not to idol worship, and that was defined by jewish lore as anything but god.

you said that God would view worshiping the messiah as idol worship..

Ur priest created the» saint inquisition» who had a bible would be killed, who would try to speck the truth would be killed as well... and ur church warships idols and Virgen Mary rather then God.

This idol jc, or if one likes to call it, the anti-christ, is now the ruler over many as prophesied, in Daniel 11:39, and in Daniel 11:43 - 45, this is the strange god of islam, also warned, and prophesied to us by Daniel.

Gay is self glorification is sin Give glory to god alone Can not say I an Christian yet will continue to sin against god Can not give all with gay as idol

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, John also says that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was no hospitality this is totally bogus, in fact their sin was the very same thing we see today that's why he cant see clearly that they were sinners before the Lord exceedingly, guilty of the most notorious crimes, and addicted to the most scandalous and unnatural lusts that can be thought of; and these they committed openly and publicly in the sight of God, in the most daring and impudent manner, and in defiance of him, without any fear or shame.

Daniel, the righteous man of God, puts himself in the same category as all of Israel who were worshiping false idols.

Besides the spirited attacks already mentioned, in this book Ellul also criticizes icons and images as idols, along with computers, comic strips, slogans, technical efficiency, the death - of - God theology, and political and liturgical spectacle.

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

A view of God as one who can receive nothing because He already has or is everything is a pagan conception; it is an idol which no Christian should pretend to worship.