Sentences with phrase «of golden calves»

It seems that at times a cross is more of a golden calf.

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.

It can restore the sense of wonder which, in our worship of the golden calf of technological cleverness, often gets trampled underfoot like a delicate flower.

This is an astounding development in the narrative of the golden calf.

I do not claim that God determined the course of that event in every detail: God did not foreordain the worship of the golden calf.

The empty Temple, which is Israel's specificity, and which corresponds precisely to the temptation of the golden calf, is the critical locus of all visualization.

The God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, reguired blood because the blood covenent that He establsihed with his people was broken with the crafting of the golden calf.

This reversal makes something magical of the brazen serpent and a destroyed idol of the golden calf, affirming that the eternal God is the enemy of images, at least as early as Amos and Hosea.

The immutabilist assumptions derived the Greek ideals sought to explain this responsive activity as merely apparent: God swore in «his» wrath, that the worshippers of the golden calf would not enter the promised land (Psalm 95:7 - 11), but recognizing that God appears to be responding to those idolaters then and there, the writer to the Hebrews adds the qualification: «although his works were finished from the foundation of the world» (Heb.

Abraham tried to defend the people of Sodom although G - d wanted to destroy them, and Moses interceded for the Israelites after the episode of the golden calf, when G - d had decreed that they be wiped out.

There are echoes of the golden calf (v. 39) and the great offering for the tabernacle (v. 40).

It requires interrupting our worship of the golden calf whose face is an electronic computer.

God looks at the heart is that a thankful heart that is filled with love or worship of a golden calf?

It always makes me think of the children of Israel going wild in front of the golden calf while Moses is approaching with the law — the revelation.

The making of a golden calf or the worship of the Baalim was apostate religion.

It is important that in 34:1 - 8 the narrative returns to the stone tables of the Law which had been destroyed in Moses» wrath at the sight of the golden calf.

In 34:1 - 4, the narrative takes up again the subject of stone tables of the law destroyed in Moses» wrath at the sight of the golden calf.

Red aerosol paint was sprayed across Nicolas Poussin's «The Adoration of the Golden Calf», earlier this month.

In 2011, someone sprayed paint on Poussin's The Adoration of the Golden Calf in the National Gallery, London.

These have included «The Black Bastard as a Cultural Icon (1985), «The Slaughter of Another Golden Calf» (1984/85), and «Marcus Garvey: The Blackest Star» (1988).

Not exact matches

And then turned around and ordered the killing of 3000 of the Israelites over the golden calf incident.

It seems to me like Tony once again took God out of the equation and replaced Him with his own intellectual Golden Calf.

Just prior to this, of course, the people had enjoyed the golden calf dance, after which God said, «That's it, I'm outta here.

Yes and what did Aaron understand when he saw the shikinah glory of God and went down the mountain and made a golden calf?

We've known of Mental Illness from the beginning of bible... when moses broke the golden calf & made all the insane devil influenced eat the gold... SIEZURES ARE DEVIL POSSESSION....

The Israelites found out the hard way when they made a golden calf and told Moses that it was their way of worshipping Yehovah.

The new «golden calf» of the so - called Christian Right is now «politics».

God led the Israelites out of Egypt, and delivered them through the Red Sea, and then at the foot of Mount Sinai, Aaron built a golden calf and called it Yahweh, and said that this was the god that rescued and delivered them from Egypt.

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The Isrealites made a golden calf as a representation of their God YHWH and he killed thousands of them for it and yet people continually pray to crosses, Jesus statues, saint statues sometimes kissing the feet so often the toes have come off, all claiming to be worshiping Jesus.

In our reach for cultural respectability and power, we oldline Protestants have acquiesced in the golden - calf vision of Christendom, becoming warp and woof of the reigning political and social fabric rather than becoming weavers of a new kingdom community.

David's dance before the ark can be contrasted with the licentious dancing of the Israelites before the golden calf in Moses» day.

29 But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and in Dan.

Israel was probably also acquainted with images at the beginning: the brazen serpent, used under Moses» high authority, and perhaps taken by David from the Jebusites and placed in the sanctuary; the golden calf, undoubtedly an image quite acceptable to the people at a late stage, in imitation of the Canaanite bull.

The Catholic historian, William Thomas Walsh, even placed Moses as the «first real inquisitor, as a Torquemada would have understood the word» and referred to the Prophet's first descent from Mount Sinai and the slaughter of 3,000 men who had indulged in idolatry around the Golden Calf.

In reality, as he brings the tables of stone down from the mountain, Moses suddenly grasps the identity of this work of sculpture with the golden calf that the people have built.

He took the things of God and gave credit to a golden calf.

God knows our need to see, which is why he sends Moses down the mountain with these visible witnesses of his will (Fernand Ryser, Le Veau d'or [Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1954]-RRB-(which oppose and at the same time respond to the demand of the people, who want to see, and therefore make themselves a golden calf).

Try to find away to synthesize the Apis Bull (Golden Calf, symbol of pagan fertility, complete with Sun Disc / sun worship, Curved Horns / Crescent Moon worship, and serpent motif (Ureus).

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the bible).

On one of Moses» trips up the mountain, he stays too long with God, and the people ask Aaron to make them golden calves to worship.

He referred to his lectures as «Lay Sermons,» in which he damned his «idolatrous age» for ignoring «the living God thundering from the Sinai of science... to worship the golden calf of tradition.»

But then they create the golden calf and worship it instead of God, and so they are given more laws with greater degrees of intricacy and duty (Exodus 32ff).

You bemoan the «atrocities» attributed to Allah, but you do n`t even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in «Exodus» and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in «Joshua» including women, children, and trees or the 3,000 Israelites killed by Moses for worshipping the golden calf (or the dozen or so other slaughters condoned by the Bible).

Callahan writes: «What a free ride this is for the researchers, whose claims of potential benefits are treated with the kind of deference and credulity not seen since the days when the golden calf was worshipped.

To Observer, When Moses came down from the mountain, many of the Jews were dancing around the Golden Calf.

Jeroboam's sin of the two golden calves, however, brings back the dark rains (62:1 - 8).

They soon forget the wrath of God and go on to make for themselves a golden calf (typical).

To regard secular America as some kind of Messiah nation, or geo - political golden calf, is sheer idolatry.

To sample them, read the story of the attempted sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22:1 - 14, Jacob's flight from r in Genesis 31, the finding of the baby Moses in Exodus 1:15 — 2:10, Aaron and the golden calf in Exodus 32:1 - 6, 15 - 24, Joshua's farewell address in Joshua 24:14 - 25, Jotham's fable in Judges 9:6 - 21, or the boy Samuel in I Samuel 1 and 3.