Sentences with phrase «idolatry means»

Idolatry means the excessive or blind adoration, reverence or devotion of something, particularly something that's not religious.

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This is idolatry in its basic meaning.

Very little do we understand the meaning of idolatry!

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

To Anus» opponents, this meant that to be met by Jesus Christ was not to be met by God himself and that to worship Jesus, if he was only a creature, was idolatry.

I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version) with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.

Where this happens, the means has become the end in a kind of perverse idolatry.

For a Jew to subscribe to this belief would mean a grave violation of the prohibition against idolatry.

Idolatry is by no means limited to graven images or foreign faiths.

I spoke to them about the only one God the creator of all things, about the nothingness of idols, the sin of idolatry, sin in general, and its terrible consequences after death and of the only means of salvation provided for all mankind in Christ.

What Olson and O'Connor propose at worst is idolatry — if they mean to posit a henotheistic and false «God» of the American flag in addition to the one and true living God.

If so, does that the mean that the other commandments, such as the prohibitions against adultery or idolatry or the command to honor one's parents, are also no longer relevant for Christians?

The idolatry of «the family pew» may be the motivating force for such decisions if the life of a congregation is organized around rituals that do not give meaning to the lives of participants.

As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.

Above all, it may come when the idolatry and self - centredness in the human loves are exposed and we discover the meaning of God's forgiveness freely given, offering us acceptance and new life.

«When faith in the Creator is replaced by faith in human ability to solve all problems by technological means, humanity has fallen into the sin of idolatry... distorted trust for our salvation in other sources of power.»

On the one hand, the social groups appear to be idolatrous in a sense that few of the individuals in them are; on the other hand, the idolatry of the great groups seems to arise out of that despair of God and the meaning of life for which the Gospel supplies the cure.

The flesh can not simply mean the body, since the works of the flesh include idolatry, enmity, jealousy, and the like — passions not obviously rooted in our biological makeup.

By «idolatry» I mean something which is, I think, quite definite and clear, and which is also, I think, written large on the face of both these two latter - day pagan movements.

By «idolatry» I mean a religion which either does not know, or else refuses to recognize, that there is no god but God, and which therefore worships the creature instead of worshipping the creator.

The «Athens» type's theological insufficiency in the face of our tendencies toward cognitive idolatry and ideological self - serving means that it needs the Wissenschaft pole of the «Berlin» type as a corrective; but it can not appropriate that without distorting what it appropriates unless it also appropriates the «professional» education pole, and vice versa.

Unfortunately, it did not occur to Weil that the weed of ethnic idolatry might be extirpated by any means other than that of eschewing the God of Israel and substituting for him Plato's wan concept of the good.

Some scholars have thought that the word refers to a relapse into barbarian or nomadic customs some time before the apostleship of Muhammad, but it should be taken to mean the falling away from the pure monotheism of Abraham and Ishmael to the idolatry which, more than anything else, the Prophet denounced with all his power.

Attempts to handle existential anxiety by pseudo-religious means (the various idolatries such as alcoholism) inevitably fail.

Still lifes were favoured at this time for their ability to convey moral meaning without committing idolatry: a sin heavily warned against in Protestantism.

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But I also think that while providing reasons is a fundamental part of the American judicial process, it is easy to turn respect for «reason» into idolatry, to think the «reasons» themselves do or mean more than they actually do, and to treat «reasons» as necessary while ignoring the question whether they are sufficient.