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Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
[29] [18] [17] The transition from monolatry to monotheism and the concept of idolatry can be summarized as the following: 1) Ancient Canaanites worshipped a large variety of gods, though probably not including Yahweh; [30] 2) Canaanites in the lands that would later be known as Israel, Samaria, and Judah began worshipping Yahweh; [21] 3) The ...
The Hebrew Bible uses several words to describe sin. The standard noun for sin is ḥeṭ (verb: hata), meaning to "miss the mark" or "sin". [4] The word avon is often translated as "iniquity", i.e. a sin done out of moral failing. [5] The word pesha, or "trespass", means a sin done out of rebelliousness. [6]
[4] [5] In contrast, Islam teaches that God does not share divine attributes with anyone, as it is disallowed according to the Islamic doctrine of tawhid. [6] [7] The Quran, the central religious text of Islam, states in 4:48 that God will not forgive shirk if one dies without repenting of it. [8] [7] [9] The one who commits shirk is called a ...
The earliest catechisms of Reformed (Calvinist) Christianity, written in the 16th through 18th centuries, including the Heidelberg (1563), Westminster (1647) and Fisher's (1765), included discussions in a question and answer format detailing how the creation of images of God (including Jesus) was counter to their understanding of the Second ...
Christianity may use the term bibliolatry to characterize either extreme devotion to the Bible or the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. [11] Supporters of biblical inerrancy point to passages (such as 2 Timothy 3:16–17 [12]), interpreted to say that the Bible, as received, is a complete source of what must be known about God.
The evil God challenge thought experiment explores whether an evil God is as likely to exist as a good God. Dystheism is the belief that God is not wholly good. Maltheism is the belief in an evil god. Peter Forrest has stated: The anti-God that I take seriously is the malicious omnipotent omniscient being, who, it is said, creates so that ...
The church believes the ultimate example of God permitting evil for the sake of a greater good lies in Jesus' death. God permits us sinners to author the crucifixion of Jesus by our sins, [78] and God permitted the sinful actions of Pontius Pilate, the Pharisees, and the other sinners involved in Jesus' crucifixion, [79] for the sake of what ...