Sentences with phrase «idolatrous when»

Religion becomes idolatrous when the symbols of perfection are worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance of rites is taken as a guarantee of salvation.

Parenthood becomes idolatrous when we seek meaning through the lives of our children.

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We can sum up what actually did become the way of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required idolatrous worship.

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

When society forces you to do something or face rejection, it is then that we have possibly encountered an idolatrous practice.

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.

When we divorce theology from our physical body, we become guilty of dualism, and our theology become idolatrous.

It was carved by an unknown sculptor in the early 16th century then apparently buried, as an idolatrous object, just a few years later when Henry VIII rejected the Pope and dissolved Britain's monasteries.