idolatry

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

The Penguin has the right idea (#32). Consecrating a symbol or an idea is a sort of idolatry.

If you sanctify a particular country, if a national anthem makes your heart swell -- you might be an idolator.
If you become incensed when someone disrespects, or appears to disrespect, a symbol of a country, like a flag -- you might be an idolator.


If you idolize a 'celebrity' -- you might be an idolator.

absolutely your spot on right.

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

Well, I think wearing or showing crucifixes with the image of dead Jesus is under suspicion of idolatry. Like all images of Jesus. Especially for those Christians who believe that Jesus is God, since it conflicts with one of the commandments,

Ciao

- viole

I completely agree and it's a crafty forum of idolatry because satan has taught and convinced ppl to worship jesus murder weapon. if your grandmom was kill by an axe murder you would by a axe chain and wear it as a symbol of remembrance. its sick and twisted

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

Do you believe everything that God says in the Bible to be true and factual?

I believe there is symbolic meaning but for the most part its historical accurate and truth

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

Worshiping a torture device, or a dead man hanging on a torture device.

absolutely

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

I view going to church to listen to sermons from one or two paid ministers as idolatrous and not just the paid ones. That minister is required to pretend to be more spiritual, and the people tend to think that listening to sermons is a spiritual practice when it is barely so if at all. I also consider worship leaders to be idols, because people consider them to be spiritual leaders.

I completely agree there a difference between respecting on teaching of Gods word and idolizing them for it

 

[exchemist]

your absolutely right in today culture Celebrity is worship as a God unknowingly to many.People will follow there every move try to look and emulate them. anything that places more importance on said idol over god. Money is The most popular god today in my opinion. They will sacrifice everything for money time,family,Love and so on. Can you explain further your point on money?

I suppose it comes down to what one means by worship. I find it hard to think people give the sort of honour and respect to an inanimate thing like money that one might give to God. But maybe I'm wrong. As they say in Yorkshire, There's nowt so queer as folk.

 

[Rival]

As they say in Yorkshire, There's nowt so queer as folk.

So we do. But we say a lot of things here.

 

[exchemist]

So we do. But we say a lot of things here.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Catholics do. Others might have just crosses, Jesus or some thing that looks like abstract art.

So do the Orthodox. I feel bad for them. They always seem to be forgotten even though there's hundreds of millions of them.

 

[Rival]

So do the Orthodox. I feel bad for them. They always seem to be forgotten even though there's hundreds of millions of them.

What about the Christadelphians?? Why do people keep forgetting about them??

 

[`mud]

Idols, idols everywhere...symbols of the mysterious transparencies of hidden supremicies..
All of these idols represent the fear of what is behind the power of unseen megapowers.
Get rid of the fear, and then you can get rid of the god's control over one's obsessions.
The Earth offers fantastic rewards in the stuff that it gives to us, no gods needed.
NuffStuff

 

[Rival]

Idols, idols everywhere...symbols of the mysterious transparencies of hidden supremicies..
All of these idols represent the fear of what is behind the power of unseen megapowers.
Get rid of the fear, and then you can get rid of the god's control over one's obsessions.
The Earth offers fantastic rewards in the stuff that it gives to us, no gods needed.
NuffStuff

I thought you were going to write a poem there!

Idols, idols everywhere and all the glass did clink,
Idols, idols everywhere, nor any libation to drink!

 

[exchemist]

So do the Orthodox. I feel bad for them. They always seem to be forgotten even though there's hundreds of millions of them.

Good point. Icons are their speciality.

 

[BSM1]

I believe there is symbolic meaning but for the most part its historical accurate and truth

Not even sure how to respond to this. It would seem that your response would make the Bible totally subjective, if not irrelevant at best.

 

[blü 2]

What forms of Idolatry can Christians perform without even noticing???

Money.

 

[PruePhillip]

Idolizing the Bible seems to me to be largely an Evangelical and fundamentalist disease. It occurs when the Bible -- or an interpretation of it -- means more to people than their god itself. Such as when someone insists that Genesis must be taken literally and cannot be legitimately interpreted metaphorically. To put it in Christian terms, it's making the law more important than the spirit of the law.

The "argument" is disingenuous.
Loving the bible is loving God because it is considered the book of God.
As for Genesis, I presume you mean the creation account?

God first made the heavens
then the earth
and the early earth was dark and oceanic
and then the granite continents rose
and the atmosphere cleared
and life emerged, first on land (in fresh water) and then the seas brought forth life.
and finally, man.

As for The Flood.
The term "earth" or "world" meant differing things to each generation, just as the
term "universe" has shifted in the past 20 years. In Genesis time the world was
the tiny population of the Middle East, later the earth was the empire of the Babylonians
and later still the earth was the Roman Empire (even though other empires were known)

 

[Milton Platt]

Not at my place of worship were big on no forms of idolatry but churches that do have those do commit idolatry

I’m an atheist, but I give you props for following at least that part of your stories.

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

I’m an atheist, but I give you props for following at least that part of your stories.

I appreciate that bro may I ask what made you an Atheist?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Was it Bible?

 

[LiveByFaithNotSight]

Was it Bible?

in my life most Atheist I meet are Atheists based on false teachings of the bible.