Sentences with phrase «idols which»

Overall the difficulty is quite easy, but for players wanting an additional challenge there are Idols which can be activated which alter the enemies characteristics to make them harder to defeat.

«Do you pray to the idols which preside over the consecration of kings?»

Theological ideas can become idols which make us miss 2 important things: God and our neighbour.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

The next logical step is it becomes an idol which dominates and rules us.

A view of God as one who can receive nothing because He already has or is everything is a pagan conception; it is an idol which no Christian should pretend to worship.

Not exact matches

Like literal adultery it does include the idea of someone blinded by infatuation, in this case for an idol: «How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts... which have lusted after their idols» (Ezekiel 6:9).»

This is no different than those of Abrahams day that made idols of wood and gold as their core belief which controlled the destiny of their lives.

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

* Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which befortime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: * St. John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: * Isaiah 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Which they did, including all the children, toddlers, infants, because they were «tainted» by idol worship.

In an age such as ours in which the old theistic idols have died or have been broken, it might be more than important that such pioneers as Schweitzer have had the insight and courage to accept the challenge to take the next steps toward the light and show us, in deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.»

In Psalm 29, the writer proclaims with majestic confidence that God is greater and stronger than every form of chaos, and by implication, than every idol through which we imagine we can control the manifestations of chaos.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

The idols of moral people are not usually what we would consider evils; but a good for which we have an inordinate love, something intrinsically good that we love more that God.

Cf. Lewis's remarks in «The Weight of Glory»: «The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them and what came through them was longing, these things - the beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken far the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols.

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

Paul's lengthiest discourse on Christian worship comes, oddly, in the midst of his answers to questions about eating meat sacrificed to idols, which he addresses in his first letter to the Corinthians.

(1) That verse has nothing to do with Xmas trees — they are about carving wooden idols (which were then adornedwith silver or gold — since gold and silver plating is cheaper than pure metal!).

The divine is intuited fundamentally, therefore, not as a separate object (even though the worshiper may be surrounded by idols) but as that which permeates his whole existence.

The idols are in heavy demand ahead of the forthcoming Hindu festival of Basant Panchami which falls this February 14.

(which means many of you are worshiping an idol too.)

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

This was against totems, idols, and statues that people made of their gods which they then worshipped as if it was the actual god.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

He who is dominated by an idol has no way to God but the turning, «which is a change not only of goal but also of the nature of his movement.»

In this way it was that they were taught that most cruel of sacrifices, a custom they always practiced after that, which consisted of cutting open a man s chest in order to tear out his heart and offer it to their idols.11

They affirm that it was this idol that had commanded them to leave their own country, promising them that they would be the rulers and the chiefs of all the provinces which had been settled by the other six tribes; of a land greatly abounding in gold, silver, precious stones, feathers, and rich shawls, and every costly thing conceivable...

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

Without the context, the reader will not realize that the principle on which Paul decides the issue is derived from the passage about eating food offered to idols (1 Cor.

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.

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.»

The historical value of a school where Muhammad taught Islam counts for nothing if the school becomes an idol, which happens, allegedly, as soon as it is preserved and labeled, visited by pilgrims, and studied by scholars.

Idols, made by human beings, belong to the earth's domain; they belong to «this side» (which is why people prefer them).

The Bible clearly distinguishes these from the idol, which is the visualization of these powers and mysterious forces.

Protestants tried to undo what the catholic church did which was covert barbaric pagan europe, people who used to whorship idols made of stone, wood, etc..

idolators not only brought their idols from foreign lands but also deepak chopra which sought to trick the gullible in a foreign land

Hermeneutics arises there a second time: no manifestation of the absolute without the crisis of false testimony, without the decision which distinguishes between sign and idol.

32 vs. 17, of the strange gods of the future generations, and the curses we have endure until this day from doing these idols in Deut 4 vs. 23 - 26, which were forbidden TO US ALL, ISAIAH 56, by YHWH.

(See, for example: 1 Corinthians 1:30: «But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption»; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - 10: «For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come»; 1 Peter 2:24: «Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed..»)

-- 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.

When we cling to the law and turn it into an idol and a weapon with which to beat other people down with, rather than try our best to lift them up.

The church cites Acts 15:28 - 29 in the Bible, which says, «For the Holy Spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.

And as others show us the working out of their problems to which Jesus was the answer, we will see our own cultural and theological idols more clearly.

It will seek political mechanisms which express and accomplish its universal vision rather than simply consolidate power to promote some parochial idol.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

It was possible for Paul's converts to eat meat which had been offered to idols without compromising with paganism.

True, the distance which philosophical theology establishes between God and ourselves is still necessary to prevent us from confusing God with our own idols, and thus it is perhaps more than philosophy, it is a hidden grace.

This was idol worship, which was punishable by death, and G - d told Moses He will destroy the Jews and make a new nation from Moses and his descendants.