Sentences with phrase «not idolatrous»

Even though Shane Claiborne has me convinced that Christianity's preoccupation with politics is misguided, if not idolatrous, I can't bring myself to quit cold turkey... so I'm taping tonight's big religious forum, hosted by evangelical pastor Rick Warren.

Therefore, while it is certainly not idolatrous to say that God is King, to say that he is King only (or King primarily) gets one into trouble.

Marriage is not idolatrous.

Not exact matches

Eric Garner is still dead, our prisons are still overcrowded, and I can't seem to let go of that stupid grudge or my excess stuff or my idolatrous conviction that the most important thing in the whole world is to be right, to stay on top.

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.

One is the suspicion of art at some periods because of the prohibition of «graven images,» and the rejection not only of painting and sculpture but of instrumental music as worldly and idolatrous.

Just because we do a crappy job of it, does not mean that we aren't sorry about our self - obsessed, idolatrous life.

If we are to call for its ending, it can not be simply because it is idolatrous, since it may be that every human ordering of society will be tainted with idolatry.

I doubt that the early church was idolatrous, like the Catholic church today and they did not pray to Mary.

Jonah wasn't, and so his theology was idolatrous.

And if it is an experience of God, it is god with a small «g,» an idolatrous experience, self - aggrandizing, titillating, not far removed from the sensuousness of Baalism, over against which Elijah stands.

The Bible itself can be a safeguard against theology as a system becoming idolatrous or an end unto itself, since the Bible itself is not what we would call theological in its style.It speaks about God faithfully in pastoral, ministerial, and argumentative contexts, not in systematic or historical or expository ways.

We moderns who have not been raised in the law do something similar when we return to legalism or religion or some other means of idolatrous coping even though we know it is wrong and not God «s way.

Yet he does not accept Barth's claim that all non-Christian religions are only idolatrous strivings after God.

It's still idolatrous even if we don't consider the the flag divine because your swearing your allegiance to a flag (a graven image) which represents the state.

God did not view these as misunderstandings, but rather idolatrous attempts that elevated worship to a higher level than God Himself.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

But the argument against the iconoclasts is utterly fallacious: it is denied that one can have an idolatrous attitude toward an icon, since an idol is the expression of something that does not exist — a fiction, a semblance, a nothing.

Much religion is idolatrous in the sense of encouraging devotion to goals or entities that are not worthy of such devotion.

I repeat that of course not all images are idolatrous and demonic.

The Truth is we would not be so quick to react to the greedy, swindling, idolatrous, sexually immoral, slandering, drunkard people who claim to be our brothers and sisters in Christ (or to ourselves).

Bill did not turn his face to, or call on, or humbly offer himself to, a radiator, a tree, a lightbulb, a Group of Drunks, or any other blatantly idolatrous symbol.

It is an acknowledgement that a desert of ignorance exists in the midst of every oasis of understanding... This (approach) is not then some temporary place of uncertainty on the way to spiritual maturity, but rather is something that operates within faith as a type of heat - inducing friction that prevents our liquid images of the divine from cooling and solidifying into idolatrous form.»

The non-idolatrous worship of God is likewise a truly Mohammedan principle — Hindu worship was generally not only polytheistic but idolatrous.

Repentance is called for not because we have chosen false means to the achievement of our ends but because our ends themselves are idolatrous.

We don't need stone idols in order to be idolatrous.

; the healing of the blind man was the release of the disciples from «Jewish blindness»; names like Jaïrus and Bartimaeus contained subtle allegorical meanings; the Gerasene demoniac symbolized idolatrous heathenism; the rending of the temple veil meant the end of Judaism; the darkness at the Crucifixion symbolized the darkness of men's minds apart from Christ; the healing of the deaf mute was the symbol of conversion — either of Jews or Gentiles, it was not certain which!

Does not Bultmann also say that the incomprehensibility of God does not reside on the level of theoretical thought but only on the level of personal existence, that is, on the level of our idolatrous and rebellious will?

Jewish people, however, did not believe that it was possible to become «one with God» and would have considered such an idea idolatrous.

He summons us to the worship not of a womb or even of a tomb but of the God of justice who exposes the idolatrous worship of nation and power.

He does not attack images in themselves so much as the imperialism of images and our idolatrous prostration before them.

Of course, it won't ultimately help them much; fundamentalist Muslims do not take kindly to Christians (or ancient archeological treasures that they consider idolatrous abominations, for that matter...) and brutal theocracy is the only alternative there to dictatorship; democracy is just not an option unfortunately.

As Matthew points out, in the vast majority of cases, the word «abomination» (typically the Hebrew, toevah, which is used in Leviticus 18 and 20) refers to what the Israelites associated with the idolatrous practices of the Gentiles, leading Old Testament scholar Phyllis Bird to conclude that «it is not an ethical term, but a term for boundary making,» with «a basic sense of taboo.»

I don't need a vision (which so quickly hardens into something fixed and idolatrous [which I like better than demonic, though it probably has that potential too]-RRB- if I have a story.

But while, for example, Hittite (not Babylonian) law also places this kind of debased sex act under sentence of death (vs. 19), in the context of Israelite apodictic law the prohibition must be understood as being rooted in the same essential theological perspective as the immediately preceding and following prohibitions against sorcery and idolatrous sacrifice.

This may be the ideal for some, but one can not count on it working out that way, primarily because of the presence of various political ideologies which, as I've described in Political Visions and Illusions, tend to take on an idolatrous character and, like all idols, are unwilling to share power with others.

As I studied these passages, another question arose I was almost afraid to even ask: Was it even possible that these passages were condemning issues of the day like idolatrous orgies and temple prostitution, and not loving, Christ - centered relationships at all?

In How (Not) to Speak of God, Rollins concludes that the greatest hope for escaping an idolatrous relationship with the Bible is finding refuge in the dynamic and diverse narrative of the Bible itself.

Scriptural references to these sexual practices, both before and after Leviticus, show God's displeasure with them whether or not any ceremony or idolatry is involved.Response # 2: Despite the UFMCC's contention that the word for abomination (toevah) is usually associated with idolatry, it in fact appears in Proverbs 6:16 - 19 in connection with sins having nothing to do with idolatry or pagan ceremony: There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable [an abomination or toevah] to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.Idolatry plays no part in these scriptures; clearly, then, toevah is not limited to idolatrous practices.Response # 3: If the practices in Leviticus 18 and 20 are condemned only because of their association with idolatry, then it logically follows they would be permissible if they were committed apart from idolatry.