Sentences with word «idolatry»

This is not all about you, this is about people, all people, «all nations» and the suffering of in difference, imposed poverty, and greed, and the misleading of idolatry of all religions, which are false in the sight of YHWH.

Speaking during News Hour he said: «There's a kind of idolatry in a sense that humanity is above all of the impacts that we throw at the planet and we're somehow going to be kind of excused from the consequences that we're making.»

In a typically lengthy footnote, Barth goes on to describe with great insight how religion is thought of as idolatry in the Bible.

It may be called modernism, but surely one can live in the modern world, accepting its science and engaging in its work, without falling into idolatry of the modern.

The number one commandment is against idolatry because it's our number one problem.

If all other gods are idols of wood, why is there a separate commandment for idolatry?

In the final analysis Biblical literalism stands in opposition to faith in God and worship of God, for it replaces these with idolatry of the Bible.

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.

Which strikes us as tantamount to fanaticism, if not idolatry.

On the other hand, we recognize that all earthly governments partake, to a greater or lesser extent, in what the Bible calls idolatry: substituting the creation for the Creator and the earthly ruler for the true God.

I was talking about idolatry in general.

Flag or not, patriotism becomes idolatry when American ideology becomes the narrative that defines our lives, when being a good American is no different than being a good Christian and vice versa.

Yes, in the passage, suppressing knowledge of God is wrong, committing idolatry with statues and images is next, and is wrong.

We can never collude when such idolatry becomes manifest, especially when it demands our public allegiance.

In other words, theists are practicing idolatry by elevating a life to the status of «God».

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

I'm not sure there is a clearly defined moment when patriotism becomes idolatry because it happens in such subtle ways, but you definitely know it's occurred when you stand in the front of your sanctuary and contemplate where to move the stars and stripes so as not to offend anyone during worship.

Unless we can say that in and through Jesus Christ, God is at one with men through this Man, we shall be guilty of idolatry if we worship Him.

I would add that we should also avoid idolatry when it comes to sporting celebrity figures.

We can also agree that much sexuality today expresses idolatry.

A major task of the Christian church today is to call people out of religious idolatry into an exciting and fearful religious insecurity.

The 60s / 70s Rock story of love - song is that the songster play with formula increasingly fades into the background, behind evocations of love's intensity, evocations genuinely — if at times rather studiously — adult, but still, or even more so, prone to an Agathon - like idolatry of love, sex, and youth.

It illustrates how idolatry leads to unnatural behavior.

This is the same tendency that leads sacramental religion toward idolatry.

We are aided in avoiding idolatry by distinguishing the Spirit that is working in us from the specific results of the work.

If there can be such a thing as modern idolatry, that is it.

It has not been easy to write about family idolatry while affirming the importance of family relationships to Christians.

Idolatry means the excessive or blind adoration, reverence or devotion of something, particularly something that's not religious.

The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly... But the deeper idolatry, of fashioning God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained.

They can work within this movement to clarify its thinking and help to preserve it from its own idolatry.

We ally ourselves with those whose idolatry leads to actions close to those called for by our faith.

That is perpetuating a system of nationalistic idolatry over and against cries for justice and equitable society.

The flesh can not simply mean the body, since the works of the flesh include idolatry, enmity, jealousy, and the like — passions not obviously rooted in our biological makeup.

(Surah 5:51) Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion shall reign supreme.»

The bible warns against idolatry so is this scripture true about those that use statues, icons, crosses?

Tim Keller is one of 50 evangelical leaders who are meeting today and tomorrow to discuss the future of the movement amid recent political events and arguably political idolatry in the church.

But there is a vast difference between idolatry and ignoring our God - given responsibility to tend for the earth, care for the animals, and do what we can to protect the earth and its resources for future generations.

Before you settle into self - assigned relationship martyrdom, ask yourself if your search for the ideal Christian partner has morphed into idolatry rather than an act of submission to God?

So... Back to the passage... These people denied God, committed literal Idolatry, and God punished them with...?

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

There's a healthy absence of idolatry at the Olympics, perhaps because athletes are everywhere.