Sentences with phrase «into idols»

«But what delights me is America, its deep essence, America which has found — alone in the whole world — a formula, almost miraculous, of government and society not turned into idols, but combining living tradition with life.

In some academic circles, Philosophy and Science are made into idols........

As we reflect on that image, we might consider how we make our images of sexuality, heterosexuality, or homosexuality into idols.

JP, the Sons of YHWH (God), had more than one wife, there was no celibacy here, you are trapped in this change of the vision of book Daniel of our future going into idols, and false religions, and corrupted governments.

In an attempt to honor the dignity of marriage, motherhood, and domesticity, they have inadvertently made these roles into idols.

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.

When you turn a living metaphor into a fact, you've turned it into an idol and thereby made it impotent.

By exercising the divinely mandated prerogative to take the life of convicted murderers, the state neither makes itself into an idol nor cancels the possibility for individual repentance.

And her comparison between loving Christ and loving eating could not be more evangelical: you stop loving Christ if you make him into an idol so that he is no longer the God exposed in the flesh, born of poor and displaced parents, in a stable amid animals, dung and flies, who hung helpless on a cross and who promised to be among the hungry, the sick, the little ones of all ages, in every street child.

Don't make Bible into an idol and worship every word it says (like muslims with Koran).

Your free religion of self - interested men has made God into an idol.

He accuses me of leading Christians into idol worship the way Aaron led the Israelites.

But we've become so grossly infatuated with the letters, words, sentences and translations that we've turned the Bible into an idol that we worship.

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.

You find out whatever the culture or person is looking to for meaning, and you show that while that is a good thing, you've turned it into an idol and only in Jesus Christ will that aspiration ever be fulfilled.

And Christians turn their god into an idol (and until the 1700s routinely killed people for not worshipping the idol or worshipping it incorrectly).

But intensely focus on that one thing that will supposedly make life perfect, and you'll find that dissatisfaction has quickly shape - shifted into your idol.

Turning God into an idol is one of the demands of commoditization.

Any ideology which turns into a an idol can be threatened by a new idea.

I made theology into an idol.

A person can make anything into A idol a figment of the mind; fantasy any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion:

He transforms the living God into an idol, the wind of the Spirit (who chose to reside in the temple of Solomon) into a utilitarian religion.

He's turned into my idol.»

It takes place a year after the events of Persona 4 Golden's new ending epilogue, where the Investigation Team has decided to help out Rise as backup dancers in a musical festival aimed at bringing her back into the idol spotlight after her break during the events of the original Persona 4.

It has also been argued that Warhol crafted Marilyn into an idol.

Not exact matches

«After I read «The Big Short,» he went to the top of my list of idols,» said Johnson, who started his career as a real estate attorney before getting into tech in 2006.

It is less theology and more idolatry; turning God into your own little idol — whatever «voice» you desire.

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

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.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

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.

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.

All the world was to be evangelized and baptized, all idols torn down, all worship given over to the one God who, in these latter days, had sent His Son into the world for our salvation.

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

I am sorry to say this, but as Mr.Limbaugh gets older and closer to passing from this life, now in his 60s, when he stands before the creator on Judgement day and asks what has he done that has been so great to get into heaven, it will be hard to explain because with all his money he will have worshipped the one idol, money.

To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the name of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting quality of the God of the New Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.

We can only pray such Christians evolve into an awareness of the unity of all life rather than continue to worship false idols.»

I think the concept of genetics and space would have created false idols and distracted from the One that put those things into place.

Amy is not an easy watch, but in a culture that has elevated the idea of celebrity and has made fame into its own sort of idol, it's an essential one.

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

Once a symbol is turned into an object of veneration it is no longer a symbol but an idol.

It was directed to believers who had only a few months previously been turned away from worshipping idols, to serve the living Mighty One, and they were waiting for YAHSHUA, who had risen into the heavens, to return.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

But demonic spirits can take advantage of those who worship idols and lead them into deeper sin.

you are getting into a very abusive relationship... For gods sake and yours don't turn on American idol

And here is the paradox: since idols try to introduce a spiritual force into reality by bringing it into the sphere of the visible and the concrete, idols themselves do not exist.

Symbols become idols when the elasticity between truth and its symbols is frozen into a stereotype that humanity can finally possess.

-- 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.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»