Idolatry

[Hazelelponi]

Anyone want to discuss the answers to the question what is idolatry?

 

[NBB]

Idolatry is worshiping something that is not God, in the modern world pastors etc say a lot of people worship themselves, or cars money, etc instead of idols and false gods.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Anyone want to discuss the answers to the question what is idolatry?

God has a place in one's life, if something is put in the place where God should be, that is an idol.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Who's job is it to take care of people?

I think that the US Constitution is a fairly good draft document that sort of outlines governments responsibility to man from a Protestant perspective.

From a Biblical perspective it seems quite perfectly done. I certainly couldn't imagine doing it any better.

All my life voting and laws was about doing what was right by tax paying citizens.

You know, whether it was keeping the streets safe and murderer free for the well-being of the people there all of it was about caring for the people.

Is it an idol if we love that law?

Or if we love life under that law?

Jesus is the voice of God made flesh, the Holy Spirit has a special role in our lives as believers. If a love of the written text replaces the guiding role of the Holy Spirit, it is idolatry.

The scripture also has a role, but we really shouldn't drive a car on the same road as an air plane, that's dangerous.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Jesus is the voice of God made flesh, the Holy Spirit has a special role in our lives as believers. If a love of the written text replaces the guiding role of the Holy Spirit, it is idolatry.

The scripture also has a role, but we really shouldn't drive a car on the same road as an air plane, that's dangerous.

Okay. I think this is helpful. Thank you.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Jesus is the voice of God made flesh, the Holy Spirit has a special role in our lives as believers. If a love of the written text replaces the guiding role of the Holy Spirit, it is idolatry.

The scripture also has a role, but we really shouldn't drive a car on the same road as an air plane, that's dangerous.

That is it and I do thank you for your time. God bless you.

 

[John G.]

Worshipping objects instead of the Immortal Invisible God is literal idolatry.
Metaphorically speaking, putting someone or something (e.g. your favourite actor or favourite team) before God can also be called idolatry.

 

[com7fy8]

And attention has something to do with it, I would say. If we give our attention where it does not belong, this is worshiping something by giving it undue attention . . . when our attention should be to God. We need how He guides our attention

 

[eleos1954]

Anyone want to discuss the answers to the question what is idolatry?

Our Creator demands our supreme devotion, our first allegiance. Anything which tends to threaten our love for God, or to interfere with the service due Him, becomes thereby an idol.

 

[timf]

Most people consider idolatry as the worship of false gods often represented as wooden or stone edifices.

Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

An expansion of the definition of idolatry to include covetousness seems to allow a broader definition that might include those things we lust after.

Consider the rich young ruler when told that he should sell all that he owned and give it to the poor and could not do it. Our desires often reflect what is in our heart. If it is not for Christ, often what is in our heart are those things that are an expression of self.