Is looking up to superheros in movies and desiring to be like another person considered idolatry or is idolatry when people worship statues? What does it mean?
2006-06-16 17:23:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lots of things...
Material Things (like cars, houses, money, jewelry, or any other possesions)
People (Lover, Friend, or Family, if you become two obessesed with them or value them more than God.)
Other Gods/Mediums (Praying to Idols, having some sort of stake in some deity that's not God)
But looking up to someone or admiring someone for their actions, convictions, or behavior is totally alright, because you simply look at them as being role model, but not necessarily a God figure. It's like looking up to a successful older brother or best friend. There's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't become obessesed with it.
2006-06-16 17:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Reel21 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My understanding of Idolatry is rooted in the times of Moses in the Bible? His ancestors believed in and "worshiped" one supreme being or god. They called him Yahweh. They had no actual symbol for him.
Other ethnic groups believed in many gods and worshiped them separately, such as the god of the harvest or the god of fertility. Greeks and Romans had similar gods for similar tasks, but named differently. Some natives to the Americas believe in and worship nature and Mother Earth.
Idolatry was an insulting way of telling those who worshiped more than one god, for which there were usually statues and icons built to those gods and goddesses, that they were worshiping mere stone and plaster. Even a Christian religion has been accused of idolatry, and that is the Roman Catholic Church, because it customarily has statues of its saints or of Jesus and his mother.
A lot of hogwash, methinks. Let each individual choose...after all, in the end, it is they who will answer!
I hope that helps you with "Idolatry."
2006-06-17 00:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by sterling roses 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Idolatry is the worship of a physical object --ANY physical object-- or any dependence to something.
Other than gods, statues, images, relics, bones, amulets, etc., it also includes money, cars, clothings, and worldly possessions...
If you idolize certain persons or beings, that is also idolatry.
2006-06-17 01:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Idolatry is the worship of items, either as symbols of some alleged diety, or as a supposed deity itself. Here are but a few examples:
The "cross" people want to erect in New York.
Discredited and disbarred former judge Roy Moore and his "ten commandment" stone.
The hundred million dollar catholic cathedral in Los Angeles with paid parking.
"In god we trust" on printed money.
Religious books ("You have to treat them with respect!").
Prayer beads.
Altars and statues.
2006-06-17 02:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Idolatry can be looking up to images. Like Porn/ Nude people. ETC.
That is a form.
2006-06-17 00:28:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God views idolatry as anything that comes between you and Him. He demands that he be first in your life.So any thing that stands between you and God is idolatry.
2006-06-17 00:46:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
idolatry is when you worship the super hero, actor, musician or statue,
2006-06-17 00:30:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here is food for your brain read Exodus 20: 4,5 and Lev 26:1 this will tell you exactly what you need to know
2006-06-17 00:36:12 · answer #8 · answered by CHAEI 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋