Sentences with phrase «against any idolatry of»

Today the 77 - year - old continues to be a prominent voice in speaking out against the idolatry of the state (a sin which he believes is particularly practised by both the American Church, and President Trump.)

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

It is because of this that he emphasises that we should «shun idols, guard our eyes from «vanities / nothings» (pp. 44, 48) so that we can «adore the God of Jesus Christ who out of love made himself bread broken, the most effective and radical remedy against the idolatry of the past and of the present.»

Not exact matches

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one God; (2) that this God is not identified with or contained by any region of nature; (3) that the pagan gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations of the one true God; and (4) that the worship of any of these false divinities is idolatry.

Right after his conversion, they passed the Test Act of 1673, barring Catholics from public employment, by making the prerequisite to such employment a solemn oath against transubstantiation and a declaration that the Mass was idolatry.

The second major conviction of Judaism so clearly needed by the Christian church today is a passion against idolatry.

But I was uneasy, and when I did venture to suggest that there was, in fact, a troubling aroma of idolatry wafting within our breezy confidences of the man, I was kindly informed that» being composed of Christian believers» the forum was in no danger of falling into sin against that great and primary commandment.

I am not concerned either with graven images or the kind of idolatry against which so many of my profession rail: the substitution of something like wealth or success for God.

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

Three major themes are rooted in Judaism without which Christianity, especially at this moment in the life of the church, would be adversely, perhaps fatally, affected: the Jewish sense of history as God's arena, the Jewish passion against idolatry, and the Jewish background which illumines the New Testament.

The Jewish condemnation of idolatry stands as constant guard against this mentality.

The first function of the affirmation that I belong to God is to combat all idolatries, including religious idolatry, to oppose my innate tendency to erect a false absolute out of that which is essentially relative, and to place a «No Thoroughfare» sign against the roads which turn nature into Nature, humanity into Humanity and myself into Myself.

The implied polemic in this humanistic approach to preservation is against nostalgia, antiquarianism, idolatry of the past; against mere prettiness and artificiality; against restoration that ignores contexts and the human stories that were worked out in past encounters with the holy.

Paul emphatically did not use homosexuality to illustrate the consequences of idolatry in order to have his followers seek to solve the problem by formulating moral laws or commandments against it.

In 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountain.

He takes strong stands against idolatry — that is, against the universal religious inclination to paint pictures of a god in eternity that look like what we want to be in history.

That is perpetuating a system of nationalistic idolatry over and against cries for justice and equitable society.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

Commitment to such already - realized values is idolatry, and against such idolatry we must ever protest in the name of commitment to the creative event itself.

This tribe - worshipping form of idolatry is the religion of Ishmael, whose «hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.»

To be sure, metaphysics is no guaranty against idolatry or even narrowness of outlook and practice.

Study of this internal history should be critical, to check against inaccuracy and idolatry.

1328) fought against what he considered to be the idolatry of saint worship, pilgrimage to holy shrines, vows, offerings, and invocations with all his might, and paid for his courage with imprisonment.

Idolatry is a grave and serious SIN, all of these portrayals of Jesus are against Scriptures.

The Protestant Reformers vehemently protested against the «abominable idolatry» of medieval Mariology.

It can also be the basis of a powerful witness to all humanity for improving the lives of our fellow human beings and for standing against the immoralities and idolatries that harm and degrade us.

The inevitable elusiveness of the divine name is the logical safeguard against universal idolatry....