Idolatry and Adoration

[Fool]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

I adore certain people but I don’t expect them to change reality?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

Worshiping a human is seeing and acting as though the other person is worthy of the worshiper's life, respect, and obedience. Rituals and prayers make one humble or a servant to another in those respects. It's an action in charity, ritual, prayer, study, practice, so have you.

Worship puts something "over" the worshiper: great mystery, cosmos, divinity, so forth

Adore is passive: I adore my child (I appreciate him, love him, and all of that) but I don't worship him (place her in the role of divinity).

 

[stvdv]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

Sometimes "worship a human" and adoring a human go together as the below 90 sec video clearly shows

 

[metis]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

Simply because they are different. I adore my wife but I don't worship her-- although she wants me to.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

I was thinking, if you mean christ they are worshiping christ's spirit not christ's flesh. So, technically, they're not worshiping a human (the flesh) but what that flesh is an incarnation of.

So, they're not worshiping the mirror just what's in the reflection.

 

[savagewind]

The difference between adoration and worship is that to worship someone/something is to OFFER something to it. But, to adore someone/something is personal. No offering necessary.

 

[sojourner]

what is the difference between worshiping a human(anthropolatry) and adoring someone?

Adoration is objective. Worship is subjective.