Sentences with phrase «against idolatry»

What I do know is that his hope for Christ's return and his commitment to loving God above all things relativizes the importance of electric power in his life and allows him to be a nonviolent witness against any idolatry of that power.

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 bible warns against idolatry so is this scripture true about those that use statues, icons, crosses?

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

It is in relation to those things we most admire that we must be especially on guard against idolatry.

Rabbinic literature fills in the pre-Genesis 12 gap with stories of Abraham's witness against idolatry.

I do find it interesting that a religion so dead set against idolatry, or anything even remotely like it, has as one of its «five pillars» a mandatory pilgrimage to a thing called the Kaaba.

This was a particularly common practice at the time which violated Christian norms against idolatry, and so would certainly have been worthy but treatment by Paul.

The number one commandment is against idolatry because it's our number one problem.

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.

Because humans have always yearned for the Absolute, monotheism must be ever vigilant against idolatry.

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.

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.»

«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.

Is it really wrong or sinful or bad for prophets to speak against idolatry?

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

With its passion against idolatry, Judaism serves as a guide toward this goal.

Naturally, the moral law had to be upheld by gentiles just as much as by Jews, so that the prohibitions against idolatry and fornication belong to the teachings of Jesus as well as the law of Moses.

Brueggemann notes that Israel's use of metaphors not only guards against idolatry but also tends toward monotheism.

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

The ten commandments of God are against idolatry, avarice, lust, stealing, killing and falsehood, Globalization makes a god of the market (a form of idolatry), takes away of people's property by fair or foul means,