Sentences with phrase «idolatrous worship»
Idolatrous worship refers to the act of worshiping or excessively admiring someone or something as if it were a god or a divine being. It means putting something above everything else and treating it as if it has supreme power or influence in one's life. Full definition
That false practice of presence seduces us into idolatrous worship of self, of nation, of ideology, so that the courage to lead a life of tough dignity and serious accountability disappears.
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Your worries of this turning into idolatrous worship is nothing more than a manifestation of bad theology.
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.
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.
They fought each other to extinction, and on their ruins was established that Roman Empire which became an object of idolatrous worship in its turn.
Post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.The idolatrous worship of organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.
The valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem, for a time thesite of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem.
What was particularly distressing to me was the almost inveterate tendency in some quarters to identify what I called civil religion with the idolatrous worship of the state.
Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.
The fact that Paul mentioned an aspect of the Athenians» idolatrous worship was not a tacit approval of their entire religious system.
He summons us to the worship not of a womb or even of a tomb but of the God of justice who exposes the idolatrous worship of nation and power.
The idolatrous worship of organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.
And this idolatrous worship necessarily debars the tribe - worshiper both from worshipping the one true God and from being his own human brother's keeper outside this one tribe's narrow limits.
This organization of power may be local and sectional, or again it may attempt to embrace the whole of mankind; and either the local tribe or humanity at large may be, and has been, erected into an object of idolatrous worship.