The hidden and denied sin of idolatry
Truster
...An idol is:
- an object of passionate devotion.
- any object of ardent or excessive devotion or admiration.
- something or someone on which the affections are strongly and often
excessively set.
- any thing or person that is the object of excessive or supreme devotion,
or that usurps the place of God
in human affection.
- whatever claims the loyalty of that which belongs to God alone.
Idolatry is:
- immoderate (exceeding just and/or suitable bounds of) attachment or
devotion to something.
- excessive devotion to or reverence for some person or thing.
- blind or excessive devotion to something.
- immoderate attachment to or veneration for any person or thing.
- the giving of absolute religious devotion and ultimate trust to
something that is not God; immoderate
attachment or devotion to or veneration for something. or someone The
Compact Dictionary of Doctrinal Words. Terry L. Miethe, p. 112
Yeppers (Ex 20:3).
See:
Self-Control, Part 1 by Alistair Begg
Bradley D
To worship an idol is vanity. Something desirable to the worldly, but in the
end will be worthless even to them.
Heb 11:25
The
hidden and denied sin of idolatry