Sentences with phrase «become idolatrous»

But the powers tend to become idolatrous, to set themselves up as gods.

They have also become idolatrous.

The religious wisdom of the ages insists that any efforts to fulfill our hopes all by ourselves and with purely human resources will themselves inevitably become idolatrous.

The scribe recognized that preoccupation with religious traditions even those commanded by God — can become idolatrous.

Any love more important than God's love can become an idolatrous love.

Membership in a church «family» can become idolatrous if a congregation includes only people who are socially comfortable with one another.

When we divorce theology from our physical body, we become guilty of dualism, and our theology become idolatrous.

Anthony, I agree that the flag and the nation can become idolatrous.

Niebuhr's message to a generation that has become idolatrous in its worship of «the American way of life» is his reminder that «we must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood within our truth.»

Please explain why and how you think that «marriage» can become idolatrous.

When the church substitutes its understanding of God for «the reality of God, we have become idolatrous.

If they are ever invested with infallibility or ultimacy, they will become idolatrous — a fact for which Christian history provides ample evidence.

Any love can become idolatrous.

It is prone to becoming idolatrous.

Parenthood becomes idolatrous when we seek meaning through the lives of our children.

The Bible itself can be a safeguard against theology as a system becoming idolatrous or an end unto itself, since the Bible itself is not what we would call theological in its style.It speaks about God faithfully in pastoral, ministerial, and argumentative contexts, not in systematic or historical or expository ways.

Religion becomes idolatrous when the symbols of perfection are worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance of rites is taken as a guarantee of salvation.

In contrast, some other believers maintained that the interaction between them was essential to discriminate the truly supernatural elements necessary to religious faith from irrational superstitions which distort faith; that it was also necessary to make faith reasonable and to express it intelligently to the moderns so as to offer them a faith that liberates reason from becoming idolatrous and inhuman.

The word God «objectifies» the experience of holiness or transcendent power, and to that extent the word itself becomes idolatrous.

Not exact matches

One danger that besets pastoral counseling is that it will lose its awareness of the spiritual element in all healing and will become infatuated, in an idolatrous way, with the human cleverness of psychology.

We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

God is reconciling the world to God's self through Christ by knowingly becoming our victim, exposing this idolatrous system that promise order, safety, peace and protection in exchange for victims.»

Although man and woman were intended to delight in sexual union with each other, any love can become excessive or idolatrous.

Jewish people, however, did not believe that it was possible to become «one with God» and would have considered such an idea idolatrous.

Much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was taken up with idolatrous aesthetics as beauty became divorced from the good.