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Do you believe it is good to worship Idols?

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MatthewG

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In this world sometimes it is very difficult to wrap ones mind around the fast pace facet of life as it goes by like a train that runs through the city at a certain set time, throughout the day and all throughout the night.

It seems that even in Egypt in the Old Testament that idols were worshipped and served the creature rather than the true and living God - the creator.

With all this stated, in the account of Paul to the letter direct to the saints at Rome, he sets up a universal fact, in which all of us have free will.

Being people of free will, all have choices and decisions to make, and there are some people who are lost, in darkness, who knew God. However they did not honor him as God, or even give thanks to Him.

They became futile in their thinking and minds, and their hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God, for images, resembling mortal man, and birds and animals and creeping things.

This simple premise given by Paul as a universal fact and trait as us human beings, is that we are always looking for something to worship.

Some people can know God exist, however instead they put him off to the side, never giving thanks, nor did they honor or praise the true and living God.

God being a loving God, and good God; if a person desires nothing to with Him, God will give them over to their own lust of their own hearts.

Did you know that? You can find more about this thought process in Romans 1:21-25.
 
MatthewG said:
In this world sometimes it is very difficult to wrap ones mind around the fast pace facet of life as it goes by like a train that runs through the city at a certain set time, throughout the day and all throughout the night.

It seems that even in Egypt in the Old Testament that idols were worshipped and served the creature rather than the true and living God - the creator.

With all this stated, in the account of Paul to the letter direct to the saints at Rome, he sets up a universal fact, in which all of us have free will.

Being people of free will, all have choices and decisions to make, and there are some people who are lost, in darkness, who knew God. However they did not honor him as God, or even give thanks to Him.

They became futile in their thinking and minds, and their hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God, for images, resembling mortal man, and birds and animals and creeping things.

This simple premise given by Paul as a universal fact and trait as us human beings, is that we are always looking for something to worship.

Some people can know God exist, however instead they put him off to the side, never giving thanks, nor did they honor or praise the true and living God.

God being a loving God, and good God; if a person desires nothing to with Him, God will give them over to their own lust of their own hearts.

Did you know that? You can find more about this thought process in Romans 1:21-25.
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I don't think it is really all that interesting of a question, because I don't think most Christians have statues to Ra or Zeus tucked away from the faith of their forfathers anymore. That ship has sailed in most countries, though may still have some relevance in rural Africa or very rural South America, but those folks sadly aren't well represented here yet as far as I know.

I think it's more interesting to ask whether it's reasonable or just more "how can I make my sermon more relatable" hogwash to claim that an over-interest in physical possessions or status or something other than God can really be re-interpreted as idol worship on the basis of one metaphor used by Jesus about serving two masters.

Clearly, it is against the rules to be overly concerned with things material from both the position of Jesus and Paul, but can an over interest in things other than God really be considered "idol worship" in an accurate sense. Does doing so diminish the importance/severity of the commandment?
 
Hello,

Thank you for reading and responding.

Anything technically can be an idol. It depends on what you place your own trust and faith in. I have struggles with my own idols sometimes. Like to much video gaming or to much tv watching or to much on my phone, to much music.

Not sure if you can relate but these are my own troubles and sometimes I need to remind and check myself if I’m letting others things become first in my own life over the true and living God himself.
 
Some people can make pornography their idols.

So many choices we can put over our love for God,

Subsequently you are right in asking your own self that question.
 
MatthewG said:
Hello,

Thank you for reading and responding.

Anything technically can be an idol. It depends on what you place your own trust and faith in. I have struggles with my own idols sometimes. Like to much video gaming or to much tv watching or to much on my phone, to much music.

Not sure if you can relate but these are my own troubles and sometimes I need to remind and check myself if I’m letting others things become first in my own life over the true and living God himself.
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This is the sense I mean. I don't know that anyone in the Bible ever understood idols this way, they meant literal statues or representations of gods other than God, and that was a common problem at the time, with so many gods being worshiped. I think this idea that anything can be an idol may be a later invention and is not scriptural.
 
You may think however you would like to, @The_drake_ may God guide you, you are right about them worshiping statues.

For you I went ahead and looked up idolatry in the Webster’s dictionary,

Idolatry is 1. Worship of idols 2. Excessive devotion to or reverence for some person or thing
 
MatthewG said:
You may think however you would like to, @The_drake_ may God guide you.

For you I went ahead and looked up idolatry in the Webster’s dictionary,

Idolatry is 1. Worship of idols 2. Excessive devotion to or reverence for some person or thing
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Lol. Websters dictionary is not an acceptable basis for theological argument matt, come on :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Where is this use found in the book or in early tradition?
 
MatthewG said:
You may think however you would like to, @The_drake_ may God guide you, you are right about them worshiping statues.

For you I went ahead and looked up idolatry in the Webster’s dictionary,

Idolatry is 1. Worship of idols 2. Excessive devotion to or reverence for some person or thing
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If they are the same, do you really believe that worshiping at the feet of Baal is worse than eating too much McDonalds or liking to play cards a bit too much.
 
Drake, I’ll say it to you like this sir, in all respect.

That is depending on the person, in what they find acceptable to themselves, I have no need to judge or feel the need to condemn others. For God is the judge of us all.

(Just reading the above in the original post is sharing the word of God that is sharper than any two-edged sword that is being shared with others).

I do not mind watching tv sometimes, I do not mind watching a movie, I don’t mind reading a book, I don’t mind eating and dining out.

It becomes a problem for me personally if I start to place all of those things above seeking after God, and it hinders my own personal relationship with the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Personally, I love that passage of scripture because it explains why man has NO EXCUSE for rejecting God.
 
MatthewG said:
Drake, I’ll say it to you like this sir, in all respect.

That is depending on the person, in what they find acceptable to themselves, I have no need to judge or feel the need to condemn others. For God is the judge of us all.

(Just reading the above in the original post is sharing the word of God that is sharper than any two-edged sword that is being shared with others).

I do not mind watching tv sometimes, I do not mind watching a movie, I don’t mind reading a book, I don’t mind eating and dining out.

It becomes a problem for me personally if I start to place all of those things above seeking after God, and it hinders my own personal relationship with the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That's a good point. I would call these cell phones idols to some people.
 
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