Sentences with phrase «such idolatry»

Commitment to such already - realized values is idolatry, and against such idolatry we must ever protest in the name of commitment to the creative event itself.

We need to remember that our reaction against such idolatry, even in our religious duty, can also become just as legalistic.

We can never collude when such idolatry becomes manifest, especially when it demands our public allegiance.

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

Not exact matches

Yet, as Elliot Dorff points out, the apparent agreement on issues such as idolatry, killing innocent life, and sexual immorality belies deep interpretive differences, not only between but within religious traditions.

Many human behaviors and conditions, such as idolatry, pride, cruelty, and adultery, are not good but are not diseases; clearly, also many diseases entail no negative moral evaluation.

The Wahhabis considered such veneration equal to idolatry and worship of the stars, which are condemned by Islam as acts of infidelity, the most serious of all sins.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Right after his conversion, they passed the Test Act of 1673, barring Catholics from public employment, by making the prerequisite to such employment a solemn oath against transubstantiation and a declaration that the Mass was idolatry.

No Christian would wear such a ring; it would be considered idolatry.

How do you worship a book that says doing such a thing would be idolatry?

«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.»

Many Christians believed that since Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, and it is to Him alone that we must swear fealty, then any such oath to a flag, or a human ruler, is idolatry (cf. similar concerns raised by Greg Boyd in The Myth of a Christian Religion).

Galatians 5:19 - 21 (KJV) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

To think and act as if such creaturely occasions were divine is to fall victim to idolatry, where the creature is worshipped as if it were the creator.

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?

Formalism in literature and the visual arts took the autonomous object with such seriousness that its attention veered toward idolatry, transforming the art object into a sort of fetish.

Such a request of prayer from Mary smacks of an effort to gain divine favor by some route other than Christ — the height of idolatry.

But our specific question today is whether homosexual actions in general and as such are expressions of idolatry.

Morals do not come from belief and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape; human sacrifice; animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.

The Witnesses» faith taught that such salutes and utterances were forbidden idolatry, directly condemned in the Decalogue, and that they did not owe the United States either their allegiance and loyalty or their efforts to come to its defense.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

If so, does that the mean that the other commandments, such as the prohibitions against adultery or idolatry or the command to honor one's parents, are also no longer relevant for Christians?

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

The idolatry of «the family pew» may be the motivating force for such decisions if the life of a congregation is organized around rituals that do not give meaning to the lives of participants.

But the products which come from the altars of this modern idolatry — the dividends, the privileges, the status, the struggle — are of such a sort that it is difficult to partake of them without becoming involved in the whole system of misplaced faith and perverted morality.

If there can be such a thing as modern idolatry, that is it.

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.

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

«When these words are said by someone, whether he or she, rich or poor, they can challenge the existing unjust social order, because such souls are free from idolatry.

In the same manner, if a person decides to sow to the flesh — they do so by envy, strife, hatred, murder, idolatry, adultery etc. one can not ask for spiritual laws to be suspended so the earth isn't thrown into chaos (sufferings such as was mentioned above.)

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.

In biblical religion such a reduction is called idolatry.

Attempts to handle existential anxiety by pseudo-religious means (the various idolatries such as alcoholism) inevitably fail.