The best way to meet Boswell's argument is to grant for a moment that the O.T. prohibitions reflect idolatrous worship practices, that homosexual acts are wrong because they are used liturgically in
false worship of false gods and goddesses.
Not exact matches
For monotheists,
of course, there is no other
god but God, so if someone does not worship that God, their god must be a false or non-existent g
god but
God, so if someone does not worship that God, their god must be a false or non-existent g
God, so if someone does not
worship that
God, their god must be a false or non-existent g
God, their
god must be a false or non-existent g
god must be a
false or non-existent
godgod.
The rest
of the people were still
worshiping false gods.
Although
God allowed Solomon to be king
of Israel for the remainder
of his life, the Lord told him the kingdom would be divided because
of his allowance
of false idol
worship in Israel.
«It's not about same - gender relations — it is about se.xual idolatry and
worshipping false gods» ---------- It does refer to certain kinds
of idolatry, sure, but you have to remember, all sin is idolatry, therefore when using the word ar.senokoitai, it refers to the idolatry (sinful act)
of same gender s.ex.
I call the
worship of a
false God a delusion.
Now, as always, the
worship of false gods tends toward bad politics.
Genesis, over against this viewpoint, affirms (1) that there is only one
God; (2) that this
God is not identified with or contained by any region
of nature; (3) that the pagan
gods and goddesses are not divinities at all but creatures, creations
of the one true
God; and (4) that the
worship of any
of these
false divinities is idolatry.
To me it is a sickening abomination
of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face
of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into
false religious idols which they expect people to
worship mindlessly.
This is intended to mark the strict separation between the chosen people
of God, who is holy, and the peoples who
worship false gods.
You rejected a satanic version
of God, which means that by rejecting that false god, you were actually worshipping the true G
God, which means that by rejecting that
false god, you were actually worshipping the true G
god, you were actually
worshipping the true
GodGod!
Let's not get Pharisaical here — the Phelps family and the people they lead in
worship of a
false god are sinners, but so are we.
The truth is, Fear has become a
false God, one too many
of us
worship with complete and undying devotion.
And then there was a different form
of poverty: the «spiritual poverty
of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship
of relativism»» the
worship of the
false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name
of a misguided and coercive concept
of tolerance.
1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks
of Topheth in the valley
of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place
of pagan
worship where people burned alive their own children to their
false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighte
god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and
God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighte
God uses this as an illustration
of a place where
God will burn alive the unrighte
God will burn alive the unrighteous
but biblically speaking,
God has never been a fan
of His people following the heathens ways in their
worship of false gods or even
of Him.
The
God of the Old Testament was a false god, just like any other god at the time, Jesus was the first and only revelation from God Himself and any reliance of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while worshiping the false G
God of the Old Testament was a
false god, just like any other god at the time, Jesus was the first and only revelation from God Himself and any reliance of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while worshiping the false G
god, just like any other
god at the time, Jesus was the first and only revelation from God Himself and any reliance of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while worshiping the false G
god at the time, Jesus was the first and only revelation from
God Himself and any reliance of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while worshiping the false G
God Himself and any reliance
of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while
worshiping the
false GodGod.
Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas
of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to
God and are doing Satans work
of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings
of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot
of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people
worshipping false Gods.
Here the adoration
of false gods is not at issue so much as the confusion that amounts to claiming to represent by an image what one is going to
worship.
Holy and Living
God, Father
of life and light, weaving space ~ nd time, only source
of everything that is, set us free from all
false gods to
worship you alone....
Belief in a
God who is all love and no wrath, all grace and no justice, all forgiveness and no condemnation is idolatry (worship of a false god invented by men), and it inevitably leads to universalism - which, of course, is what many liberal churches have been preaching for generatio
God who is all love and no wrath, all grace and no justice, all forgiveness and no condemnation is idolatry (
worship of a
false god invented by men), and it inevitably leads to universalism - which, of course, is what many liberal churches have been preaching for generatio
god invented by men), and it inevitably leads to universalism - which,
of course, is what many liberal churches have been preaching for generations.
While some
of them may've believed in the «one true
God», it was still impossible for them to believe in a saviour, or «accept one into their hearts» — meaning, if they lived in the here - and - now, mainstream Christianity would condemn them to «hell» along with anyone in the OT who
worshipped false gods.
If we import into our thinking ideas about rewards and punishments, as these are commonly understood, we turn
God into «the ruthless moralist» who, as Whitehead once remarked, is one
of the
false «
gods» that men have
worshipped to their own frightful hurt.
For to you alone belongs the honor and the glory Lord, and this man
worships a
false God named «Science», before you Lord, and has thus broken the 1st commandment
of your Covenant.
Daniel, the righteous man
of God, puts himself in the same category as all
of Israel who were
worshiping false idols.
Separating these dimensions (
worship without justice and
false security when
God and the neighbor are rejected) is precisely the injustice and betrayal
of the covenant that is denounced by the prophets.
For this reason
God gave them up to the evil desires
of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: Because by them the true word
of God was changed into that which is
false, and they gave
worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever.
To blame a
false god for the evil in your heart, or to actually worship and follow the evil instructions of God and call it good?&raq
god for the evil in your heart, or to actually
worship and follow the evil instructions
of God and call it good?&raq
God and call it good?»
The polemic
of the prophets against
worship of false gods in Israel was combined with the struggle against political and social wrongs.
What if
god is Thor, and he's p - issedd off because you have been
worshiping that
false Abrahamic
god instead
of him?
In the book
of Deuteronomy, death is prescribed as the penalty for
false prophecy,
worship of foreign
gods, kidnapping, adultery, deception by a bride concerning her virginity, and disobedience to parents.
Promoting the
false «trinity «doctrine fantasy, Luke 11:13, Matthew 16:16 & 17, and promoting reverence toward statues, crosses, pictures and dead «saints» instead
of teaching that true
worship means absolute obedience to the word
of God.
«Most former Muslims would also say that they had been attempting to
worship the same
God, but they later realized that the teaching and system
of worshipping God in Islam were to some extent incorrect,
false, and misleading.»
In such a case, the rejection
of this
false god by the atheist is an act
of pure
worship.
More Republicans than ever are
worshiping before the
false god of local control, and too many Democrats have learned from their union friends that local control ain't so bad after all, especially when free money flows to local districts and teacher paychecks arrive courtesy
of the U. S. Treasury.
or how environmentalists are
worshiping the
false God of «Mother Earth».