Sentences with phrase «like idolatry»

Rollins suggests that something like idolatry may be going on in the Western Church in regard to the Bible.

I'm not a Mormon heretic, so this just like idolatry and Idolatry like atheism, is Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE.

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.

Not exact matches

and, «The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

Just like in the kingdom of Israel, after the people saw the effects of idolatry and immorality, they eventually turned back to God.

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

Like I said before, IDOLATRY IS NOT Religion, IDOLATRY IS A VERY SERIOUS SIN.

Even though no one after Adam broke a command like Adam, every human after Adam has sinned (committed idolatry) because the only image of God available to humanity has been Adam's idolatrous distortion of him.

I am not concerned either with graven images or the kind of idolatry against which so many of my profession rail: the substitution of something like wealth or success for God.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

So long as there are those who identify God with some one - sided abstraction like infinity; absoluteness, or worst of all omnipotence (not even a self - consistent abstraction), we shall need the help both of more balanced theists and of nontheists to counteract these more subtle and intellectual forms of idolatry.

«Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Galatians 5:19 - 21 (KJV) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: se.xual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, or.gies, and the like.

Yet, ever and always, they, like Christians before them, fall easily into idolatry» and thereby lapse into paganism.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.

Idolatry like atheism is Total stupidity.

So Idolatry the sister belief cult like system of atheism and evolutionism is worst than the hillbillies.

He takes strong stands against idolatry — that is, against the universal religious inclination to paint pictures of a god in eternity that look like what we want to be in history.

You see, people don't talk like that about stealing or idolatry or murder because they * know * those things are sinful.

But in the making of images there is the danger of fomenting idolatry, and inviting the confusion of the reality with the image, when the original is, like God, unimaginable.

Gal 5:19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, Gal 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, Gal 5:21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

It also seems like one of the sillier sorts of idolatry to regard that violence as somehow sanctified by the fallen condition of the world.

In the biblical tradition another metaphor for infidelity, like adultery, is the metaphor idolatry.

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.

But it seems like modeling is only healthy to a degree, beyond which it becomes (variously) idolatry, trusting in one's understanding, respecting a collection of static images rather than living spirit «not made by hands,» and so on.

I'd like to explore the idea that the way the Bible is being used in modern Christian circles, particularly among conservative evangelicals, may in fact border on idolatry.

I particularly like your 3rd one and have been an advocate against biblical idolatry for some time now.

23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

Assistant pastor Tim Mascara talks about our collective obsession with football in a way that makes Burrell's Panthers - idolatry zinger sound like an ad campaign for the NFL.

can feel like a disingenuous apologia, portraying Lawrence's character as the victim of neglect and increasingly repugnant violence bred out of her husband's indulging in his own idolatry: a blood - spattered muse.

That is, has human thinking, judging and willing become so egregiously impaired by our idolatry of the artificially designed, manmade «economic colossus» casting a giant shadow over the Earth, that we can not speak intelligibly about anything else except economic growth and profits without sounding like blithering idiots?

Idolatry, zealotry, and good old - fashioned pig ignorance are worn like badges of honour amongst the wind and sun cult.