Sentences with phrase «idols at»

The use of idols at no time completely ceased, at least in pre-exilic Israel; also, it became obvious that graven images were only the symptom of the disease of idolatry — i.e., the worship of the creature instead of the creator.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

«And yet, strangely enough, as much good as «living with less» has done me, it has also been too much of an idol at times.

He was a matinee idol at Duke, a bad boy at Minnesota and, last season, an All - Star at Atlanta.

«I would be very happy if I could be an idol at a club like Arsenal, but I can no longer think about it, it depends on a lot of work.

My grandaddy idol at least for right now is Jim Wynorski.

Other ancestors include Venus with her reflection in a mirror by Titian, a fallen idol at Nineveh, figurines from the office of Sigmund Freud, and implicitly Freud himself.

Not exact matches

After much disappointment from the rejection, Buffett discovered that his idols Benjamin Graham («the father of value investing») and David Dodd were professors at Columbia Business School.

She worked as a receptionist at singer Gary Morris's music publishing company before landing a job with her idol Reba McEntire, packaging fan club merchandise.

20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live» Isaiah 2:12 - 17

CNN: Young cancer warrior meets Christian singer idol via Kyra Phillips Not many people start fundraising at age seven, but that's what Tori Svenson did.

By now, you have probably seen, or at least heard of, this ad: I have no idea what Rand Paul did when he was an undergraduate at Baylor University, but I doubt that he ever seriously worshipped false idols.

Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

Because we have made an idol of God (we sin), we do not trust Him, and we die as a consequence of our lack of trust (addressed at the end of Hebrews 3; sin is unbelief).

So really, to worship and idol a statue that is made to look that is sticking its tongue at you is such an insane thing to do.

Linda (October 3, 2014 at 7:22 pm) said: «The leadership idol is alive and well in the church.

At worst, the Bible becomes an idol that literally confuses the scriptures with their rightful subject matter.

They are all man made IDOLS that will perish along with their believers at Judgment Day.

So sure, let's just take it at face value, perhaps Jezebel was a whore and a power hungry idol worshipping prophet killing madwoman.

How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were so fundamentally at odds with their most basic understandings?

In a city like Corinth, much of the meat offered at the butcher's shop had been sacrificed to idols.

At some point in her life she realized that all this rule - keeping and bowing before idols, as she sees it now, was not giving her any peace.

Elizabeth Scalia is the author of Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life and the managing editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos.com, where she blogs as The Anchoress.

I dropped «christianity» from my life starting as a child after I read some childrens bible that showed «God» destroying some people who were worshipping an «idol» — Even at the age of 8 I knew it was wrong to kill those who do nt follow your beliefs.

God is not mad at us but rather deeply hurt by our choices in putting idols infront of Him.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower - bell, some one's death, A chorus - ending from Euripides, — And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again — The grand Perhaps!

Since Girard's thesis is that the gospel of Jesus Christ has inexorably through the ages taken rationales for violence away from us by revealing the gods who demand violence as idols, the West has finally reached the point of secularity, the point at which the divine justifications drop away altogether.

«It's all rooted in the notion of idol worship,» says Akbar Ahmed, who chairs the Islamic Studies department at American University.

This reversal makes something magical of the brazen serpent and a destroyed idol of the golden calf, affirming that the eternal God is the enemy of images, at least as early as Amos and Hosea.

The primary reason I wouldn't undo what happened to me, is that I had a lot of idols in my life at the time, and the experiences I went through obliterated many of them.

Gregg Shively... the idea of a «stumbling block» is addressed to Christians who felt at liberty to eat food sacrificed to idols (1 Corinthians 8) and was not addressed to «outsiders».

i. 9 - 10 Paul sums up the effect of his preaching at Salonica in the terms: «You turned from idols to God, to serve the living and real God, and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead — Jesus, who saves us from the coming Retribution.»

Most of the people know the truth but they do not want to accept the truth... for example a man goes to a little idol ask for favor prior to go to meeting at his work and he knows that this little piece of metal has not power even to move itself but still that intelligent person go and do it...

-- to transform it into a fellowship which attempts to attract by down - grading the importance of God and religion and applauds beliefs in idols or anything or nothing at all.

And look at the idol... God in a shell floating somewhere with the cherubim... is this the God we want to worship?

And dare I say it, at risk of having a fatwah aimed at me, but many Muslims make an idol of their prophet.

Clearly, The Patriot's Bible is at best an embarrassment to evangelicals everywhere and at worst a little idol with a $ 30 price tag.

The war is like a crucifixion the suffering of the innocent calls us to repent of having elevated our own cherished values into idols, protected our own isolated causes and goods at the expense of others, and deployed our powers in the service of our partial interests and devotions.

As it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison system.

But I'm pretty sure that preserving the sacredness of sexuality means speaking about it with reverence, respect, and truth (and with some humor now and then too, as I'm convinced that our ability to laugh at ourselves has a direct correlation to our ability to spot the idols in our lives).

at least God wont ask me why i defend pedaphiles and commit idol worship and all the other pagan garbage you do...

Also of Moses in Deuteronomy 32:17, prophesied the same thing for the «latter» days of the future generations all doing idols from all of these religions, this is exactly where we are today, at the feet, and the toes of the dream by the king in Daniel 2:1 - 49, of these days of war, and false religions, and of crooked governments.

Victoria, my book looks at the biblical texts which allegedly teach what you are saying they teach (that Christmas trees are idols, etc) and shows how that understanding is a terrible misunderstanding of those texts.

The same Old Testament that provides the pronouns also states, «Since you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure — the likeness of male or female» (Deuteronomy 4:15 - 16).

You have to look at the Catholic Church for all of this worshiping the idol thing they have been doing for centuries.

There was a risk that this Fuehrer would turn to be a Verfuehrer — a misleader, an idol Bonhoeffer had chosen to be on the side of the opposition and he took part in all struggles of the confessing church at Finkenwalde.

When Thomas K. Beecher preached on one occasion at Plymouth Church there was an unseemly rush for the doors, on the part of the sight - seers, as he entered the pulpit instead of the popular idol.

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.