Sentences with phrase «idolatrous understanding»

Although it, like all the others, is subject to idolatrous understanding, the conflict between serving the Earth and serving God is far less than the conflicts engendered by serving Christianity, nation states, or economic growth.

The reason all men sin is because they have a model to imitate who has an idolatrous understanding of God.

Not exact matches

But to think America was ever just so wonderful and dandy, so that a return to the correct understanding of those principles is easily done and will make most everything right, is foolish, idolatrous, and ultimately, despair - causing.

When the church substitutes its understanding of God for «the reality of God, we have become idolatrous.

It is an acknowledgement that a desert of ignorance exists in the midst of every oasis of understanding... This (approach) is not then some temporary place of uncertainty on the way to spiritual maturity, but rather is something that operates within faith as a type of heat - inducing friction that prevents our liquid images of the divine from cooling and solidifying into idolatrous form.»

As she understood, the idolatrous conceit of national election got Europe into its world wars in the first place.

But while, for example, Hittite (not Babylonian) law also places this kind of debased sex act under sentence of death (vs. 19), in the context of Israelite apodictic law the prohibition must be understood as being rooted in the same essential theological perspective as the immediately preceding and following prohibitions against sorcery and idolatrous sacrifice.

Indeed, such fissures help to prevent us from forming an idolatrous image of God, ensuring that none of us can legitimately claim to understand God as God really is.