Religion and idolatry
July 5, 2014 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2014 at 12:20 pm by Baqal.)
As the Torah states:
Exodus 20:2-5
2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
3 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
4 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
5 and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
If we open the Bible and read Exodus 20:3-6 we will see that it says pretty much the same stuff, except:
6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep My commandments.
This replaces the fifth verse of the Torah, and switches the word "mercy" for "love".
The Quran, much like the previous holy books, calls idolatry a sin and addresses that no Muslim is to have any gods before Allah.
The Women - سورة النساء
[4:48] Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills. And he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin.
The Jinn - سورة الجن
[72:18] And He revealed that the masjids are for Allah , so do not invoke with Allah anyone.
The Quran also addresses that a belief in any other god other than Allah is a deception associated with Satan.
The Women - سورة النساء
[4:117] They call upon instead of Him none but female deities, and they call upon none but a rebellious Satan.
It may be clear that Yehowah and God by the Bible are the same entities, because they seem to state the same commandment. However, I don't see any reason for Yehowah to be jealous of any other deity. Doesn't he state that He is the only one, true god? Why is He worried about competition, then?
A Christian once said this in the YouTube comment section:
"Jesus is the only true Lord, as stated by the Bible, so worshiping anything else is idolatry."
Are you seeing how this sentence can be troubling for Christians that don't believe in the Trinity? From their perspective, worshiping Jesus is considered idolatry.
I can go and give you examples until the ostriches start to fly, but at the end, we will come to the following conclusion:
"Christianity can easily dismiss Hinduism as idolatry. Hinduism can dismiss Christianity as idolatry. Islam can dismiss both of them as idolatry, and so on."
What do you think personally? Do you think believers should be more careful when they attempt to dismiss another belief for being nothing but pure idolatry?
Exodus 20:2-5
2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
3 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
4 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
5 and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
If we open the Bible and read Exodus 20:3-6 we will see that it says pretty much the same stuff, except:
6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep My commandments.
This replaces the fifth verse of the Torah, and switches the word "mercy" for "love".
The Quran, much like the previous holy books, calls idolatry a sin and addresses that no Muslim is to have any gods before Allah.
The Women - سورة النساء
[4:48] Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills. And he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin.
The Jinn - سورة الجن
[72:18] And He revealed that the masjids are for Allah , so do not invoke with Allah anyone.
The Quran also addresses that a belief in any other god other than Allah is a deception associated with Satan.
The Women - سورة النساء
[4:117] They call upon instead of Him none but female deities, and they call upon none but a rebellious Satan.
It may be clear that Yehowah and God by the Bible are the same entities, because they seem to state the same commandment. However, I don't see any reason for Yehowah to be jealous of any other deity. Doesn't he state that He is the only one, true god? Why is He worried about competition, then?
A Christian once said this in the YouTube comment section:
"Jesus is the only true Lord, as stated by the Bible, so worshiping anything else is idolatry."
Are you seeing how this sentence can be troubling for Christians that don't believe in the Trinity? From their perspective, worshiping Jesus is considered idolatry.
I can go and give you examples until the ostriches start to fly, but at the end, we will come to the following conclusion:
"Christianity can easily dismiss Hinduism as idolatry. Hinduism can dismiss Christianity as idolatry. Islam can dismiss both of them as idolatry, and so on."
What do you think personally? Do you think believers should be more careful when they attempt to dismiss another belief for being nothing but pure idolatry?
