Sentences with phrase «idolatrous worship in»
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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.
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Your kind is idolatrous in that they seek to please themselves and worship their own depraved lifestyle instead of yielding to God.
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.
Moreover, the dynamics I have described are, I believe, at work in all, so that in varying degrees we are all sinners whose worship is nearly always partly, and sometimes mostly, idolatrous.
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.
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.
Niebuhr's message to a generation that has become idolatrous in its worship of «the American way of life» is his reminder that «we must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood within our truth.»
He referred to his lectures as «Lay Sermons,» in which he damned his «idolatrous age» for ignoring «the living God thundering from the Sinai of science... to worship the golden calf of tradition.»
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.
Cult prostitution, scattered idolatrous sanctuaries, the practice of child sacrifice, and all objects and manifestations of astral worship (ancient Babylonian in origin, taken over by Assyria) are abolished.
This is obviously a major re-education process of mankind in the Last Days to eliminate the idolatrous image - worshipping systems of the religions of the Earth.