Sentences with phrase «calls idolatry»

The bible calls that idolatry.

the question still remains, and should, to challenge what the bible itself calls idolatry.

YOU: the question still remains, and should, to challenge what the bible itself calls idolatry.

On the other hand, we recognize that all earthly governments partake, to a greater or lesser extent, in what the Bible calls idolatry: substituting the creation for the Creator and the earthly ruler for the true God.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

The icons, the rosary, the crowning, the Marian hymns — it's all a bit much, and so they dismiss out of hand any language of veneration that might elevate the mother of Jesus to a place of special esteem and call it idolatry.

Imaginary gods is called idolatry and is most frowned upon.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

your god is not nature, to have a god in nature you Christians call it Idolatry.

In biblical religion such a reduction is called idolatry.

Not exact matches

@ smrtaz — No, science plainly called «idolatry» in the «bible», because it advocates actually getting the answers, rather than blindly repeating «because «god» did it».

You just have to believe that adding the worship of another god (even if you call that god «Britain») is idolatry.

We can validly call for the ending of this form of idolatry only as we can point toward the prospects of a less idolatrous society, one that has a better chance of serving God through serving God's creatures.

If we are to call for its ending, it can not be simply because it is idolatrous, since it may be that every human ordering of society will be tainted with 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.

this topic is a topic called, se.xually immoral idolatry.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

A major task of the Christian church today is to call people out of religious idolatry into an exciting and fearful religious insecurity.

Founded in an experience of transcendent order, the new settlements habitually slipped away from their high calling and fell into idolatry, as the children of Israel had done before them.

Some missionaries saw that as idolatry; others thought it wise to do what the rulers asked and call it a patriotic gesture.

I call this devotion to the market and its needs «idolatry.»

We ally ourselves with those whose idolatry leads to actions close to those called for by our faith.

Devotion to Mary may well land its practitioners in idolatry, leading them to worship one who is not God, and who called herself merely a humble «servant of the Lord» (Luke 1:38).

I have called this disciplinolatry, and I will explain later how this idolatry has been encouraged in recent times.

Enslaved to fear of death, we do what the apostle Paul calls the «works of the flesh» — immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, and envying.

Farley describes existence which is specifically Christian as a special form of co-intending called ecclesia, a redemptive co-intending which leads us away from idolatry and flight, to freedom from self - securing and to obligation and to obligation toward one other.

Perhaps he would have condemned the gay sex even if it weren't in the context of idolatry... Then again, Paul also calls it «shameful» and «unnatural» — using the same Greek words — for a man to have long hair (1 Corinthians 11:14).

It may be called modernism, but surely one can live in the modern world, accepting its science and engaging in its work, without falling into idolatry of the modern.

The sin of national idolatry is called «patriotism.»

But even among those who have no desire to address the Bard using Juliet's term for her Romeo («thy gracious self, the god of my idolatry») and who also feel no desire to enroll in what Harold Bloom calls the School of Resentment, Shakespeare's achievement is extraordinarily difficult to specify.

The word of God, he says, calls man and draws him back from self - idolatry.

And Daniel's time is yes bce, before common era, 606bce, and yes, before so called jc, as I said this folklore jc was compared to horus, and isis the Egyptian gods, and they used Amen Rah, Amen Sirapus, etc. all Egyptian, and where the idolatry began in greatness for the chosen people «Israel» the son, and firstborn of YHWH in the book of Exodus.

Oh, how far this so called academic community, and world has fallen into a state of idolatry an overt sin.

What you're probably thinking of is where some form of pagan worship that involved incense was called an abomination, as were all forms of idolatry.

In that case, a congregation's practice requires a different sort of critique, and calls for creative reflection about how to avoid ideological captivity and idolatry.

In a section of «Evangelii» entitled «some challenges to today's world,» he sharply criticized what he called an «idolatry of money» and «the inequality that spawns violence.»

You see there's a well intended but unbalanced guy who thinks — because I place flowers at the feet of the statue, the one that I call «Mother of Abundance,» and offer a few prayers for the mothers and children — that I'm practicing idolatry.