Idolatry is a man-made religion worshipping the created rather than the Creator such as in image-worship, fetishism, the worship of trees, rivers, hills, stones, and more. The worship of trees, rivers, hills, stones is closely akin to nature worship, the worship of the sun, moon, and stars, as the supposed powers of nature. Much of this idolatry is found in the New Age, recycled Eastern pagan religion. In Romans chapter one Paul deals with the consequences of denying God as the Creator.
Not too far removed from the worship of pagan gods is today’s hero worship of sports figures. Some worship deceased ancestors in the belief that spirits continue to reside on earth after death still influencing the lives of the living. However, Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
Atheism has become a form of idolatry greatly advanced by best-selling authors such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. People have long argued whether Einstein believed in God, I'll leave that up to them. No God to Stephen Hawking, rather gravity, now where/ from whom did gravity come from?
“Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
[Hawking, Stephen; Mlodinow, Leonard. The Grand Design]
God elegantly repudiates this in The Book of Job starting with chapter 38. Job 38:4, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
As an aside and digging deeper, as I understand it, there is a difference between an "abomination" and the "abomination that make desolate." An abomination would be the false worship of idols rather than of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Idols would include anything/ anybody such as power, money, lust, and sexual perversion sought after rather than God. Abomination that make desolate would be where/ when these “idols” were brought into the “Holy of Holies” as with Antiochus IV. Sound familiar?
Nearly four years ago I wrote that "the abomination of desolation should serve as a warning to anyone/ any country into extreme false worship. In this country millions of babies are sacrificed on the altar of choice. Contemporary idols are greed, thirst for power, homosexuality and many perversions. Our children are being corrupted with non-Biblical teachings. Our churches are so far removed from the teachings of Jesus that they are becoming, IMO, an abomination for which God will hold them responsible."
Hopefully, the election of 2016 will bring our country
closer to her Christian beginnings.
Hopefully, the election of 2016 will bring our country closer to its beginning.
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