Sentences with phrase «practicing idolatry»

You see there's a well intended but unbalanced guy who thinks — because I place flowers at the feet of the statue, the one that I call «Mother of Abundance,» and offer a few prayers for the mothers and children — that I'm practicing idolatry.

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

To neglect the world and institutional life is to deny the sovereignty of God over the whole of life, and to practice an idolatry which confines God to our individual existence and limits the Christian life to individual behavior, thereby leaving the world to the principalities and powers.

To give final devotion to the book is to deny the final claim of God; to look for the mighty deeds of God only in the records of the past is to deny that he is the living God; to love the book as the source of strength and of salvation is to practice an idolatry that can bring only confusion into life.

«Jonah has great disdain for the Gentiles, who practice idolatry.

Not exact matches

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

This was a particularly common practice at the time which violated Christian norms against idolatry, and so would certainly have been worthy but treatment by Paul.

Idolatry is not practiced in the Church, that is sinful.

Judging others is the task of Jesus, and when we try to take this responsibility upon ourselves, we are practicing a form of idolatry by putting ourselves in the place of Jesus.

If «education for ministerial functions» is in practice definitive of «having to do with God,» is that not an idolatry of ministerial functions?

Two elements in the sexual practices of Baal worship drew the prophetic criticism: idolatry and prostitution.

We must acknowledge the ever - present tendency to self - deceit, idolatry and institutional pride in its doctrines and practices.

Relations with the departed ancestors were declared idolatry, any Christian marriage had to be monogamous and initiation practices must be given up.

Sometimes the debunker most vigorously insists that Christianity is being betrayed and perverted by the idolatry shown in some institutions and practices.

«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.»

Yet if, as Eichenwald alleges, all sins are equal, why not compare the New Testament's opposition to homosexual practice to its opposition to behaviors that even Eichenwald disapproves, such as consensual incest, kidnapping, idolatry, and cheating the poor out of their life savings?

Wherever the icon or the image is venerated or «revered,» those who do so come close to the practice of idolatry.

Nor can we ignore the fact that crude idolatry has been and is practiced in the Christian church.

Islam began when Muhammad became sensitive to the dehumanizing implications of the idolatry of popular religious practice.

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.

In that case, a congregation's practice requires a different sort of critique, and calls for creative reflection about how to avoid ideological captivity and idolatry.

The Bible speaks of practices done out of pagan idolatry in Romans and 1 Corinthians.

Idolatry arbitrarily elevates the worth of objects over ideas and the people who discuss them, and is cited as a bad practice by the bible and its skeptics alike.

To be sure, metaphysics is no guaranty against idolatry or even narrowness of outlook and practice.

First, concerned about the influence of paganism upon the Roman Christians, Paul sees homosexual expression as a result of idolatry, but he does not claim that such practices are the cause of God's wrath.

Sorry, but such a practice is a sin of vanity and idolatry, and has no part with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

If we are in the other 30 %, we must recognize that anything that falls short of practicing the one anothers of Scripture quickly becomes idolatry and that we forfeit the grace from God we could have.

The concept of עבודה זרה, or idolatry in Judaism, is more akin to a concept of foreign worship by bringing in practices or priorities that would compete with this devotion.