Sentences with phrase «makes idols of»

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.

The religious impulse, evident also in radical environmentalism, rightly recoils from making an idol of humanity.

In refusing to make an idol of humanity, some species of environmental thought make an idol of the universe itself.

You sir, have made an idol of the bible.

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).

Humans need to sacrelize / make idols of things in order to create rallying points to leverage the economies of scale.

We do not make idols of ourselves.

If we elevate our own good plan to the only good plan we make an idol of it.

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?

He says in his article that doing is basically making an idol of the state.

He debates whether we've made an idol of the Bible and the way that Jesus read scripture with evangelical church leader Andrew Wilson, the author of Unbreakable.

We make an idol of this tradition if we read it in any other way.

This desire tempts us to make an idol of our earthly cities.

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

There is, of course, an important distinction between group loyalties which assert in principle the universal claim of all men to justice and brotherhood, and those which make an idol of one group.

He traces the development of the fundamental democratic insights to a kind of «common sense» which repudiated ecclesiastical control and the dogmas of individualism and collectivism.16 The point is not that we should make an idol of the democratic tradition in any historical form.

It's easy to make an idol of marriage.

Christians who love the wrestling and the journey of faith may feel like they have a handle on their doubt — but in our efforts to be sincere, have we made an idol of uncertainty?

It can make an idol of its own ideals, imprisoning us in the very structure that was meant to set us free.

Third, Barton makes an idol of the state.

True, God is transcendent; to think otherwise makes an idol of language.

The preacher inside is spouting liberal platitudes: «We know more than the Bible did about science,» «We can't make an idol of scripture,» and «We have to see beyond the letter to the meaning!»

Creedalism makes an idol of a fossilized description of religious experience, a set of verbal symbols which, at one period of history, were used to articulate the Christian experience of certain persons and groups.

As I've written elsewhere, Francis seems to be channeling the spirit of Pius IX, the great nineteenth - century pope who could well have spoken of modernity reeking with «the stench of... «the dung of the devil,»» a vivid image from the Church Fathers that Francis recently used to describe the spiritual consequences of making an idol of capitalism.

Moralism makes an idol of conformity to a set of ethical stricturcs.

Sectarianism makes an idol of a particular religious group.

(There arc various idolatrous forms of religion: Biblicism makes an idol of the words of the Bible, ignoring the findings of many years of dedicated scholarship.

When we want the Bible to be perfect, inerrant, the very words of God in every detail we tend to make an idol of it, like the bronze snake.

Pls make an idoL of him and worship him morn, noon and night

Your eloquence and even tempered view on football and name calling has fast made you an idol of mine.

His success in advertising and referrals has made him the idol of some within the legal profession and the whipping boy of others.

Not exact matches

You want to soak up as much knowledge and experience as you can, avoid making any mistakes, and follow in the footsteps of your business idols.

I'll end with one final quote of advice — this time from my idol Albert Einstein — that applies especially well for hardware entrepreneurs — «Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.»

You don't have to make an idol out of every successful person you know in order to learn from them.

Getting stronger There is a probably no more cited quote of Nietzsche (often misquoted, actually) as this, also from Twilight of the Idols: «Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger.»

And even if I have genuinely experienced God's grace, the moment I begin to regard grace as something I can use, I have turned from God and substituted an idol of my own making.

1 Paul appealed to the evidence around him that God created all things 2 Paul spoke of Gods kindness in providing all their needs 3 This God is different than the statues and idols they worshiped in vain that are empty vs. the living God In Romans 1:19 Paul said: «God has made it plain to them.

Ps115: 4 - 8 4 But their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

If some make an idol out of entertainment, others make an idol out of abstention.

: KJV Lv / 26 - 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up -LCB- any -RCB- image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I -LCB- am -RCB- the LORD your God..

@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....

But for me (and maybe for you, too) the sin comes when I make an idol out of that consistency.

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.

The cardinal also issued a «gentle reminder» that some have made an «idol» of the pro-life cause, letting it displace the indispensable life and sacramental grace of the Church.

A person can, no doubt, make an idol out of an ideology, but the mere possibility does not establish, as Koyzis seems to think, that Christian liberals, Christian conservatives, etc., have committed themselves to an essentially idolatrous project.

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

When the people sin in making an idol in the image of the golden calf in Exodus 32, Moses» rebuke is about their «marital unfaithfulness» to God.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

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.

The Ten Commandments — The Law 1) Thou Shalt have no other gods before me 2) You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or earth below... 3) You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God 4) Remeber the Sabbath and keep it holy 5) Honor your father and your mother..