Idolatry

mysterious. By personifying the world, “we can breathe freely, can feel at home in the uncanny and can deal by psychical means with our senseless anxiety.” (Freud 20) On this occasion, the congregation 's focus was drawn to the commandment prohibiting idolatry,…

As we reach the end of the Old Testament, we also reach the Minor Prophets which cover the books of Hosea to Malachi. The prophetic books of the Bible are books of judgment and punishment. They also cover and illustrate the issues of idolatry, social injustices and religious ritualism. Even now in the 21st century these issues still apply to us and we can learn things from the teachings of the prophets. A man named Amos prophesized in Israel during a time of prosperity for the nation;…

our bodily representation of God. The fall begins as we begin to reject our created responsibility to represent the Lord and we begin this responsibility onto idols. We then deny our calling to live and we begin to cultivate the earth in disobedience. Either we image God in our loving rule of the earth, or we forfeit that task in disobedience. For disobedience goes against the very grain of creation itself, that sin is rebellion against the creator and the creator of reality. Such rebellion…

faith. The apostle Paul lived in a time in history were there multiple views on spirituality, just like in today’s world. We will discuss how his ministry during the early formation of the Christian faith challenged the Greco-Romans views on idolatry. Idolatry is defined by the Jewish, Moslem and Christian faiths as anything that humanity places their faith in rather than our…

not create idols within ourselves or love other things more than God. Augustine defines “Idol” as “anything you love more than God or rest your heart in other than God.” Some idolatry is really hard to discern. You have to look at them with “spiritual eyes.” According to Augustine, disordered love is one of the first idolatries in a person. For Augustine, a rightly ordered love were virtue and right knowledge.…

In the Old Testament, the prophets had a lot to say about idolatry, social injustice and religious ritualism. In this paper we will look at what the prophets had to say about each topic. We will also look at how we should use the teaching of the prophets on these subjects in our lives today. Idolatry is according to Webster Dictionary the worship of idols or excessive devotion to, or reverence for some person or thing. In other terms it is the worship of anything other than the one true God. God…

perfect, holy, and all-satisfying love of Yahweh, Israel was unfaithful, actively pursuing other lovers, worshipping the Canaanite god, Baal. Israel’s idolatry and spiritual infidelity were in no uncertain terms, flagrant. Israel is described repeatedly as a whore (2:2, 5; 3:3) who actively pursued her lovers (2:5), revealing the extremity of their idolatry. Prostitutes are typically pursued by the customer, Israel, however, pursued hers. Israel was so immersed in paganism, that an extreme…

that, “As soon as the first philosophers searched for the logos, the meaning, of their native rituals and myths, they reflected on the problem of speaking of God in human terms. If we take our language about God as literally descriptive, we run into idolatry. If we retreat to the other side and negate the adequacy of language altogether to speak of God, we run the risk of saying nothing at all.”1 Braaten articulates a central tension…

Psychological Perspectives of Lone Wolf Terrorism The psychological perspective of lone wolf terrorism generates the characteristics of the terrorist, focusing on its demographic characteristics by understanding terrorists’ age, gender, social status, and education level. In the research statistic, the general characteristics of terrorists are mostly male, young people, high education background, good foreign language ability, and even high social status. Moreover, numbers of characteristics…

Sin can manifest in multiple ways such as; foolishness, unrighteousness and injustice, misplaced trust, hubris, familiarity, and idolatry (Powell, 2008, p. 114). It is imperative that we have an understanding of sin, in order to recognize that we have fallen victim to it, and to understand that we have the ability to call on our Father to deliver us out of it. God already warned…