How To Use Idolater In A Sentence
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And yet because this leads to erroneous belief on the part of the people, who are inclined to worship the image itself instead of God (for the people cannot discriminate between the outward act and its idea), the Bible punishes idolatry with death, and calls the idolater a man who angers
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
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Furthermore, rare are the religious bodies today that exclude thieves or greedy persons, or drunkards or revilers or robbers or even adulterers or prostitutes, or idolaters from the kingdom of God and the precincts of the sanctuary.
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When idolatry began, the first idolaters knew that Hashem existed, that He was the Creator of the world, and all they were doing was praising His creations, the sun and the moon, as intermediaries.
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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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In their view, many people who claim to be monotheists are actually polytheists and idolaters.
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Bot contrariwise the stubburne, inobedient, cruell oppressours, filthie personis, idolaters, and all such sortes of unfaithfull, sal be cast in the dungeoun of utter darkenesse, where their worme sall not die, nether zit their fyre sall bee extinguished.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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In their view, many people who claim to be monotheists are actually polytheists and idolaters.
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Believers, know that the idolaters are unclean.
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Some people would be horrified to think of themselves as idolaters, yet their behavior may manifest a lack of faith and trust in God.
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Among such passageways is the imitation of idolaters or of the followers of other religions who have exaggerated respect for their saints.
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Apparently, idolaters could be redeemed, but informers could not.
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Most famous of course is the classic heavy duty "fire and brimstone" text from Revelations: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Old English gods and myths: Hell
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The nations amongst whom they were exiled were like the unclean idolaters of old, whose blandishments and evil influence must at all costs be resisted, until such time as God in His infinite mercy chose to redeem and vindicate His people.
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They deny themselves to be a generation of idolaters: "We are not born of fornication, are not the children of idolatrous parents, nor have been bred up in idolatrous worships.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Notice that Wright contrasts the people of God being vindicated with idolaters being shown to be wrong.
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On the other hand, idolaters and would-be gods take ‘fire’ literally, and use it for the destruction of others.
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But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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But the grounding in verses 19 and 20 for the assertion that the idolaters under discussion were without excuse, that they knew God through the things God has made, clearly shows that Gentiles are in view.
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Man is essentially an idolater, -- that is, in bondage to his imagination, -- for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago.
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881
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Haran dies at the feet of his father, Terah, who, we learn elsewhere, was not merely an idolater but actually made idols for a living—a true master of idolatrous power-logic.
The Ten Commandments
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How happens it, in the midst of so many gods and different theogonies and particular worships, that there was never any religious war among the people called idolaters?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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This kind of coiffure had a highly idolatrous meaning; and it was adopted, with some slight variations, by almost all idolaters in ancient times.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The insitutor of it was the great prophet Elias, who three times made fire come down from heaven to punish the Idolaters.
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About the days when he was "one of Baal's shaven sort," in his own phrase; when he was himself an "idolater," and a priest of the altar: about the details of his conversion, Knox is mute.
John Knox and the Reformation
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It grew up in the effort to conquer Canaan against what we thought was an ocean of idolaters and the effort to survive the Roman Empire.
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The penal constitutions of the Judaical polity (for so they were, which yet I urge not) concerning idolaters, must be stretched beyond their limits, if you intend to inwrap heretics within their verge.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Ahaz was described as an idolater who cooperated with the Assyrians.
The Bible Unearthed
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Was he unconverted and just as lost as any pagan idolater in the ancient world?
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Join "saith ... concerning the house of Jacob." redeemed -- out of Ur, a land of idolaters (Jos 24: 3). not now -- After the moral revolution described (Isa 29: 17), the children of Jacob shall no longer give cause to their forefathers to blush for them. wax pale -- with shame and disappointment at the wicked degeneracy of his posterity, and fear as to their punishment.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They will not be among the Egyptian idolaters in the future; they will be among the immoral Canaanites.
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The idolater in me, the superstitious troglodyte, whispers: Pssst.
Learning to Die in Miami
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For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Majestie in erth, making the Saitt of justice, quhilk aucht to be the sanctuary and refuge of all godlie and vertuouse personeis, injustlie afflictit, to be ane den and receaptakle to thevis, murtheraris, idolateris, huremongaris, adulteraris, and blasphemaris of God and all godlynes.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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In other words, I would say that idolatry not only dishonors God and demeans the idolater; it ultimately leads to the destruction of the hapless idol itself.
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On the one hand, a person who gets angry about things that he has no control over is considered as an idolater.
Elissa D. Barrett: The Rest is Commentary: Jewish Post-Election Reflection
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According to this savant, all existing archaeological evidence should be destroyed and a sign installed in its place: ‘Behold the fate of idolaters!’
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I secretly revere it, as the idolater in me awakens once again.
Learning to Die in Miami
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Revelation 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Election Central Morning Roundup
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In the eyes of idolaters, the idol was seen neither as the source of their existence nor as the source of their well-being.
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In other words, I would say that idolatry not only dishonors God and demeans the idolater; it ultimately leads to the destruction of the hapless idol itself.
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They were not idolaters as some religiously intolerant groups might suggest; no learned people actually worshipped the sun as God literally.
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This confession of the divine omniscience is here extorted from these idolaters, to the honour of God and their own condemnation, who though they knew there is a God in heaven, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secret is hid, yet offered up their prayers and praises to dumb idols, that have eyes and see not, ears and hear not.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
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That the idolater became an idol himself is, as ever, the sadder story.
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If we want to stop short of being idolaters, how can we advance the analysis and criticism of all such political proposals in congregational locales?
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There was a strong opposition against the commemorating of the birthday by the early Christian scholars like Origin, on the ground that it is originally a custom of pagans and idolaters.
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S: The fornicator shall not marry any but a fornicatress or idolatress, and (as for) the fornicatress, none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolater; and it is forbidden to the believers.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side