Sentences with phrase «such idolatrous»

We can happily move beyond such an idolatrous notion of revelation today.

The sinful distortions of our lives and consciousness twist and divert our longings and aspirations in such an idolatrous way that we are forced at times to distrust them completely.

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Better to be a none than being part of such corrupt, perverted and idolatrous religion, because you all know that guy the Pope?

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

Can such a vision, along with its accompanying values, provide meaning and motivation sufficiently powerful to convert men from their idolatrous, self - destructive loyalties and transform them into prospective citizens of a new world society?

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

Alfred North Whitehead, the great Anglo - American philosopher whose thinking is behind the «process conceptuality» to which some of us subscribe, rightly called such ideas idolatrous, and spoke of them as apostasy from the «Galilean vision» (as he styled it) in which God is «modeled» after the figure of Jesus Christ.

Altizer rejects many of the more recent positions toward the problem of atheism: that we need a long moratorium of God - talk, that God is somehow eclipsed for a time but will return, that what God is in himself is eternally unnameable, that what has died is some idolatrous idea of God, that there never was a God and now he is unthinkable because any need for such an idea has passed.

(Deut 14:2) As such, Israel was to remain free from all idolatrous practices.

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

E. g., the problem in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 is the conflict between those whose conscience allowed them to eat meat sold in the marketplace (which might have previously been dedicated to idols), and those conscience, being undeveloped, felt that such meat was «contaminated» by the idolatrous practices.

Indeed, such fissures help to prevent us from forming an idolatrous image of God, ensuring that none of us can legitimately claim to understand God as God really is.

Such emotional love can actually be idolatrous.