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Greco-Roman Religion and the New Testament

… worshipped the one true God and everyone else worshipped idols. There were some efforts to proselytize non-Israelites … message to non-Jews was that they should turn away from idols, toward the worship of the one true God instead, … For Paul the true God was living, which suggests that idols were not, though Paul does ultimately posit …

The “I’s” of Corinth: Modern Problems Not New

… Paul’s clarification regarding the practices of eating idol meat or attending dinner parties held in pagan temples. … eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that …

"Great Are the Words of Isaiah"

… the supreme and unforgivable sin was the worship of idols. Well, he says that idolatry is foolish and irrational … with a load of goods, cried out, “Would that I had some idol that would permit me to rob this man’s goods.” A dumb …

Isaiah and the Great Arraignment

… The prophet lamented that “their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which … of trees and gardens, they had established places of idol worship (see Isaiah 1:29). [12] Idolatry was destroying …

Remembering Redemption, Avoiding Idolatry

… to the temptation to worship literal graven images as idols, I argue that the more metaphorical sense of idolatry … love God first and not have wealth become an idol—prepares us to more fully live out the second …

The Promise and the Provocation

… exactly did the calf represent, and second, was there one idol or many? The function of the idol seems relatively clear. As the text states, Moses’s … with the divine has been broken in some fashion thus, the idol was needed for access. As to what they wished to access, …

"The Wisdom of Men": Greek Philosophy, Corinthian Behavior, and the Teachings of Paul

… could participate in pagan cults and eat meat offered to idols with impunity (see 8:1–13; 10:13–11:1), and that they … that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, “we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other …

The Paradox of Religious Pluralism and Religious Uniqueness

… answered by revelation from God or by worshipping manmade idols. It seems that there was always an inborn need for … likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even …

Benito Torres Sandoval

… Amid such poverty, why would people give offerings to idols? Why would they deny food and lodging to the most … say no. He thought he would be punished for worshipping an idol. When the officiating priest and the image of Saint Luke …

The Isaiah Map

… as Damascus? As my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem … not a passage where the Lord is condemning Jerusalem for idol worship; the principal speaker in this passage is the …