Sentences with phrase «even idolatrous»

Not exact matches

Even though no one after Adam broke a command like Adam, every human after Adam has sinned (committed idolatry) because the only image of God available to humanity has been Adam's idolatrous distortion of him.

and the problem, with Israel, is that instead of living as a light and a vehicle, they were an Idolatrous and backsliding people, as we read about the Pharisees in the New Testament and even in the prophets rebuke over and over in the Old Testament to the people, Israel closed themselves off in pride and arrogance.

We moderns who have not been raised in the law do something similar when we return to legalism or religion or some other means of idolatrous coping even though we know it is wrong and not God «s way.

It's still idolatrous even if we don't consider the the flag divine because your swearing your allegiance to a flag (a graven image) which represents the state.

Economism as commitment to the increase of wealth is clearly, even grossly, idolatrous.

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

He summons us to the worship not of a womb or even of a tomb but of the God of justice who exposes the idolatrous worship of nation and power.

Even though Shane Claiborne has me convinced that Christianity's preoccupation with politics is misguided, if not idolatrous, I can't bring myself to quit cold turkey... so I'm taping tonight's big religious forum, hosted by evangelical pastor Rick Warren.

Therefore, the implicit suggestion that the Christian community should distrust equally all philosophic systems of thought because they in turn are restrictive and even corrupting in their religious effects is basically idolatrous in character.

Particularly in this society, where consumption drives the economic system and where economic values shape even family and church decision - making, the idolatrous dimension of mammon is both ubiquitous and subtle.

As I studied these passages, another question arose I was almost afraid to even ask: Was it even possible that these passages were condemning issues of the day like idolatrous orgies and temple prostitution, and not loving, Christ - centered relationships at all?