Sentences with phrase «even idolatry»

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

Not exact matches

While various disputes occurred among the rabbis about the precise nature of these laws, and even whether they are more or less than seven in number, in every version of them the prohibition of idolatry for gentiles is prominently featured.

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

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.

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.

Idolatry, on the other hand, is always closed and defensive, even imperialistic.

What did exist — what very much existed — and what pressed on Jewish faith from all sides, and even from within, were the religious problems of idolatry and syncretism.

There is even a hint of idolatry about the cult of admiration for C.S. Lewis that began forming even during his life, with its shrines, sacred texts, keepers of the flame, and theological niceties.

And even the idea that some book could contain ultimate truth is really the worship of images or idolatry in Christianese.

So long as there are those who identify God with some one - sided abstraction like infinity; absoluteness, or worst of all omnipotence (not even a self - consistent abstraction), we shall need the help both of more balanced theists and of nontheists to counteract these more subtle and intellectual forms of idolatry.

Idolatry is even found in what commonly goes by the name of religion.

Yet if, as Eichenwald alleges, all sins are equal, why not compare the New Testament's opposition to homosexual practice to its opposition to behaviors that even Eichenwald disapproves, such as consensual incest, kidnapping, idolatry, and cheating the poor out of their life savings?

The 60s / 70s Rock story of love - song is that the songster play with formula increasingly fades into the background, behind evocations of love's intensity, evocations genuinely — if at times rather studiously — adult, but still, or even more so, prone to an Agathon - like idolatry of love, sex, and youth.

The Catholic historian, William Thomas Walsh, even placed Moses as the «first real inquisitor, as a Torquemada would have understood the word» and referred to the Prophet's first descent from Mount Sinai and the slaughter of 3,000 men who had indulged in idolatry around the Golden Calf.

We may even agree that in a society that discourages faithful bonding among homosexuals, a higher percentage of homosexual activity than of heterosexual activity expresses idolatry.

Surely even the unchurched would respond positively to expression of conviction on moral principles, even if they disagreed about the obvious applications: e.g., idolatry and Watergate.

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

We need to remember that our reaction against such idolatry, even in our religious duty, can also become just as legalistic.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

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).

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.

Even from when in the days of long ago, religion was considered as idolatry by Moses, prophesied for the future generations in Deuteronomy 32:17, and prophesied in Daniel 11:39 - 45, also for the future as well.

Increasingly, our understanding of reality is one - dimensional, even within the church; our quest for fulfillment seeks satisfaction through greater consumption; our security rests in nuclear weapons, and our blindness and idolatry are visible in our stated willingness to blow up the world, if need be, to preserve our way of life.

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

Even the picture with this article is absolutely wrong; we are told in the Old Testment NOT to make any graven image (idolatry) of God, and yet we see it constantly.

The Town Council also formally approved the liturgical changes already made and, prompted by Karlstadt, even required the removal of some of the side altars in the Wittenberg Parish Church, as savouring of idolatry.