Sentences with phrase «form of idolatry»

The danger that attends every project of mythmaking is that the new myth will create new forms of idolatry.

In Saving the Appearances, Barfield claims that historical criticism and traditional exegesis will someday be unveiled as forms of idolatry.16 In a review article on Barfield, Altizer states: «Saving the Appearances may well point to a liberation of the Biblical scholar from an idolatrous understanding of the Bible as literal text.

The use of our religion as a sanction for what we ourselves desire most to preserve leads easily to American forms of idolatry which may be more treacherous enemies of Christian faith than explicit denials of it.

Since the literal form of idolatry common in Paul's day is no longer the way idolatry functions in our society, and since in our society there is little association of homosexual practice with religious festivals, this reason for Paul's selection is now chiefly of historical interest.

For decades Protestants criticized nationalism as a major form of idolatry.

Spiritually, he contends, addiction is a deep - seated form of idolatry.

I am glad I went through what I did, as it opened my eyes to so many things and liberated me from several forms of idolatry.

But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own form of idolatry — an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor of the causes we support.

When various forms of idolatry became part of their effort to influence the world, they were merely trying to tie all things together, to make sense out of a world that often proved hostile to human feelings.

This tribe - worshipping form of idolatry is the religion of Ishmael, whose «hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.»

Any kind of culture - making that stops at the art itself becomes simply an aesthetic form of idolatry.

As I show in Benefit of the Doubt, the only way to get free from this without falling into some other form of idolatry is to realize that biblical faith isn't about feeling certain, but about a willingness to commit to living for God in the face of uncertainty.

In addition to peddling misconceptions of sin and the emotions, the better - living - through - chemistry movement invites a new form of idolatry.

St. Francis is, of course, a great favorite of environmentalists, but, divorced from God in Christ, such piety toward the creation becomes a form of idolatry.

The constant search for Satan will only draw our attention from giving God the affection and attention that is due onto him [thats another form of idolatry really.

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.

We have acknowledged that our anthropocentrism has been a form of idolatry — a very destructive one.

Judging others is the task of Jesus, and when we try to take this responsibility upon ourselves, we are practicing a form of idolatry by putting ourselves in the place of Jesus.

Theologically speaking, ideology is a form of idolatry.

On the other hand, it is open to being distorted in self - serving and oppressive ways which are forms of idolatry.

If that author is correct about «national pride and patriotism being a form of idolatry,» might that then not explain some of the internal problems we have within our respective nations?

One of the reasons I am thinking about all of this is because of the book I just read, Unmasking the Powers, and what the author said in there about the angels of nations, and how national pride and patriotism for the country could be a form of idolatry.

Steve Taylor's song, «Cash Cow» is a warning to us all that chasing cash is a form of idolatry that began way back in the Sinai desert.

Human love without celibacy is at best mere sentiment, at worst a form of idolatry.

The problem with Bush using the same words to describe America the same way as Jesus is a form of idolatry.

Muslims oppose showing prophet's Muhammed image for fear of idolatry, but isn't mass naming of children his name a form of idolatry?

The ten commandments of God are against idolatry, avarice, lust, stealing, killing and falsehood, Globalization makes a god of the market (a form of idolatry), takes away of people's property by fair or foul means,

Niebuhr maintained that sensuality was both a form of idolatry which made the self god, and an alternative idolatry in which the self, conscious of the inadequacy of its self - worship, sought escape by finding some other god.24 He described three forms of sensuality (luxury, drunkenness, and sexual passion) to demonstrate this.

This is yet another form of idolatry practiced by the evil that is the Catholic church.

Partisanship should be recognized as a form of idolatry, a prioritizing of our own ego or tribal loyalties over our commitment to God and His world - encompassing mission for us.

The Bible, the church, Jesus Christ and God have all lost their absoluteness in modern times, and the attempt of the guardians of Christian orthodoxy to restore any of them to the pillars from which they have fallen becomes only a new form of idolatry.

Sin can also find expression in the form of idolatry.

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.

The secularist who regards secularization as a matter of winning complete emancipation from the old heritage, is in fact turning secularism into an absolute, and without realizing it, he is in danger of becoming enslaved to a new form of idolatry.

Perhaps more environmentalists will come to recognize the need to be Earthists in a more fundamental way, and perhaps more Christians will recognize that economism is a form of idolatry every bit as pernicious as nationalism.

This form of idolatry is a danger whenever people assume (rightly) that they are saved by faith while also (mistakenly) equating faith with their sense of certainty.

He says it's a form of idolatry.

More recently, Dolphin has started to invert these forms of idolatry by asking amateur artists found online to draw portraits of him from a brief description.