How Idol Worship Lives On Today | United Church of God
2019年3月4日 · God’s clear warnings against idolatry are found in numerous biblical passages. For example, Ezekiel 14:6 declares, “’Thus says the Lord God: Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.’” Also, the apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:14 “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
What Is Idolatry? - United Church of God
2011年1月24日 · Idolatry occurs when we begin to value anything more than we value God. If we spend more time thinking about our hero than God, that's idolatry. If our every thought is about the latest gadget or our personal appearance, that's idolatry. If the first priority in our lives is our family, even that's idolatry.
Covetousness Is Idolatry - United Church of God
1997年7月31日 · A form of idolatry. Is coveting a problem we should take seriously? In Colossians 3:5 the apostle Paul directs us to "put to death" our fleshly desires, including "covetousness, which is idolatry," or, as one translation puts it, coveting is equivalent to "the worship of strange gods" (Bible in Basic English). Why is covetousness equated with ...
Hard Questions: Are Christians Guilty of Idolatry?
2018年1月28日 · 1. Well first, idolatry is an attempt to fulfill the human need for a spiritual connection. You see, idolatry contains mysticism, secret knowledge, superstition and a “feeling” of connection with spiritual forces. The idol represents the unseen god and goddesses and contains mystical powers from that god.
Overcoming Idolatry - United Church of God
2016年2月20日 · Col 3:5 (NAS) Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. Fornication (porneia) – adultery, figuratively, idolatry. The following scripture provides valuable information for dealing with idolatry…
1 Kings 11:1-25 - United Church of God
First Kings 11 begins by succinctly stating the cause of Solomon's idolatry: "But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites…. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart."
Jeremiah 3:1-4:4 - United Church of God
2003年6月2日 · Israel [including Judah] needed a new field in which to sow its seed of faithfulness, a radical departure from its ways of sin and idolatry" (Nelson Study Bible, note on verse 3). In verse 4, we see that the main purpose of circumcision is to illustrate the need for mankind to remove any hardness of heart and all barriers separating us from God.
Ezekiel 8 - United Church of God
2003年8月25日 · To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity—now far sunk in idolatry—in this as in so many ...
The Only Solution to Idolatry - United Church of God
2019年12月11日 · And what it says here in verse 20 is that the Word of God prevailed. Now, what that word means is it had a force and a power. It wasn't Paul's power, wasn't the force of his personality, it was the power of the Word of God. That's what prevailed and that's what turned people from the idolatry in the city of Ephesus in that day. And, think about ...
Isaiah 47 - United Church of God
2003年5月14日 · Incredibly, they are the fountainhead of much of the idolatry in the world today (yet still mere agents of the true author of idolatry, Satan the Devil). Upon the death of Nimrod, Semiramis did not want to "sit as a widow" but desired to continue as "queen" and adored "lady" over the kingdoms of Nimrod's empire forever (compare Isaiah 47:5, 7-8 ...