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escuerzoresucitado · 1 year
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when they say “Jewish people, Muslims, and Christian’s all worship the same god” is that true? can you tell me more about the god in Judaism and how it’s different or similar however? what is unique? thank u
It's not true.
According to Judaism, Jews and Muslims worship the same G-d, but Christians don't. This is why Halakhically it's okay for a Jew to pray in a Mosque if they have to, but not a Church. Muslims fall under the category of those who aren't Jewish, but are God-fearing, and as such different laws apply.
According to Jewish law, Christianity is idolatry, and thus the god they worship is an idolatrous god. Christianity isn't considered to be truly monotheistic according to Judaism. The concept of the Trinity is considered Shittuf (pseudo-idolatry), and the assertion of Jesus, a human, as divine, is considered blasphemous.
Now, this doesn't mean that as Jews we shouldn't interact with Christians (or any other idolatrous people) at all. Interfaith discussions and allyship is intergral to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. It just means that as Jews we don't consider Christians to be monotheistic and to worship the same G-d we do, and thus we don't pray in a Church and are careful not to engage with Christian iconography.
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Is Christianity considered Avoda Zarah?
Avoda Zara
Visiting a Church or a Mosque
Introduction to Masechet Avodah Zarah and 2a-5b
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philosophybits · 8 months
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "Letter to Mathilde Mayer (16 July 1878)"
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nodynasty4us · 11 months
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From the essay:
my American eagle avatar-ed friend ... tried to convince me that President Biden wasn’t fairly elected—and the proof is in the lack of merch.
“Nobody even likes Biden” he assured me. “I still see Trump flags and hats and tattoos everywhere around town, I don’t see Joe Biden’s face anywhere.”
And he’s not going to, but it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with adulthood. 81 million of us elected a president; we didn’t erect a golden calf.
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apenitentialprayer · 4 months
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It is necessary to believe that there exists a Church which is one, holy, and catholic. As regards the three Persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we believe in them in such a way as to place our faith in them. But now, changing our mode of expression, we declare that we believe the holy Church and not in the holy Church. Thus, just by this difference in language, God, who is the Author of all things, is distinguished from all His creatures; and when we receive all the precious blessings which He has conferred on His Church, we attribute them to His divine goodness.
- The Catechism of Trent (1.9.23). Bolded emphasizes added.
We must not believe in anyone but God. [...] I believe the holy Church, apostolic, universal, and orthodox, which has taught us this sound doctrine. I do not believe in Her as I believe in God, but I confess that She is in God, and God is in Her, not as though She Herself contained God, but rather insofar as She is Herself contained by God.
- John of Fécamp (Confessio fidei, Chapter 26)
The Creed says: credo ecclesiam, not in ecclesiam. One cannot believe in the Church —the holy Church— as one believes in God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. According to this third article, one can believe only in God, in the Holy Spirit, and it is by knowing and confessing his work that one can believe the Holy Church exists, can believe that forgiveness of sins is granted by the Holy Spirit to man; or, as the first article declares, believe that heaven and earth were created by God the Father. The holiness of the Church, however truly it may exist and may be known by faith, is not the holiness of the Holy Spirit; it is the holiness that the Holy Spirit created and bestows upon her. The Holy Spirit separates the Church and sets her apart; he distinguishes her. He gives her a specific being and a particular law. The Church is holy because she remains a part of the created world, in which it is not possible to believe as one believes in God.
- Karl Barth (Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation)
The entire Church always wants to refer humbly to her Lord. She does not wish in any way, even by simple passing preterition, to make herself equal to God or substitute herself for him. By doing this the Church puts aside more firmly than ever something which can in fact be called her "permanent temptation," that of self-idolatry.
- Henri de Lubac (The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed, pages 182-182), trans. Richard Arnandez, F.S.C.
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islam-defined · 6 months
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Allah created the sun and moon and stars all for the service of mankind not as gods for the worship by mankind
And among His signs are the night and day and the sun and the moon; do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon (they are at the service for the mankind), but prostrate to Allah who created them, if it is Him that you serve.”[41:37]
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Worshiping the sun god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the sun)
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Worshiping the moon god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the moon)
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Worshiping the stars god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the stars)
"Have you not seen that to Allah prostrate all those in the skies and all those on the earth, and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the animals and many from mankind? And there are many on whom punishment has become due. And the one whom Allah puts to disgrace, there is none to give him respect. Surely Allah does what He wills". [22:18]
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Do Not Provoke the Lord
Don’t follow other gods. Don’t serve them or worship them. Don’t make the Lord angry with the gods your own hands have made. Then he won’t harm you.’ — Jeremiah 25:6 | New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Holy Bible, New International Reader’s Version® Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 8:19; 2 Kings 17:35; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:8; Hosea 1:7
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roger-dear · 1 month
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These are some illustrations I did for some discipleship material my wife and parents-in-law are working on. These were made to help visualize the text in Isaiah 44:13-17 on the folly of idolatry.
The first piece is meant to illustrate the text "...He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man..." from verse 13, emphasizing that idols can only ever be less than or equal to their maker, never more—much less a god.
The second piece is meant to illustrate verses 13 through 17 as a whole, tracking two pieces of the same log as they are used for vastly different purposes. One half becomes fuel for the fire, while the other is carved into an idol.
I had a lot of fun doing this, and while these were actually only meant to be concept sketches, they turned out good enough that they just used them as is anyway lol
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koinohnia · 3 months
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As a daughter of God, you’re not obligated to submit to any man who is not your husband. You don’t have to respond to the advances of a man you’re not married to. A man saying he admires you or wants you doesn’t mean you have to want him back. You don’t have to live in fear of being hated or mistreated for following Jesus.
What really messes us up though it the idolatry in our lives through loneliness. When we don’t have security in Jesus, we yearn for it through people and it makes them our potter, when we open up spiritually to people who can’t love us as intimately as Jesus has. Sexual intimacy was made to be protected within marriage. Being bored and lonely isn’t an excuse to look to satisfy yourself elsewhere.
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comick · 4 months
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A commission for @Vintagedolliette Who requested a drawing of Idolatry, The demon of Mass Consumerism from my comic series In The Dark, and their OC Dahlia, who is half angel/human singing him a tune. Considering Idolatry is always looking for more ways to use cuteness as a means of gaining more worshippers, I can see him probably taking notes so he can use this for the next big viral Happy Kawaii Cat plush release (now with singing action).
Idolatry (c) belongs to Crystal Gonzalez - In The Dark
Dahlia (c) belongs to Vintagedolliette - Deviantart
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tabernacleheart · 3 months
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There are numerous historical and sociopolitical reasons why anti-Semitism has the dark power to unite political, cultural, and religious rivals, but perhaps the deepest explanation is theological: it was the Jews who first shattered the world’s multifaceted idols, announcing the revelation that there is one living God who created and continues to sustain all existence, including human existence. This is the theological, metaphysical, and moral core of the shema, which comes from the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy and Numbers, though its core is in Deuteronomy 6:4-6: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your might." This is the great idol-smashing declaration of the Hebrew Scriptures. And it indelibly changed history. Inter-tribal enmity has been with us since the fall, but the terms of warfare, prior to the arrival of the Jews, were stable: you get to have your gods, and we get to have ours; we may, and likely will, do everything in our power to destroy you and your gods, but we will not deny that there are multiplegods. Despite lethal disagreement over whose gods were superior, in other words, a quiet polytheistic understanding held the whole melee together, forming the battlefield upon which all tribes advanced their respective deities. But then came the Jews, announcing that there was— there is— one God, and that that God, while active in the world, is not to be found anywhere in the world. The Jews also affirmed that the whole purpose of human life was— is— to love the one God with all your being. There could be no substitutes.  This was the greatest buzzkill in history; and for that act, the act of demasking and de-divinizing every past and future idol, the twisted hearts of fallen men would never forgive the Jewish people. A devilish pact was thus made: Whatever wars we wage on each other, we will never lose sight of the common enemy: those who, by their very existence, disturb our labors to fashion and worship our own idols. We will hate each other, but we will always hate them more— and it is that hate that will unite us all.  This is the idolatry of anti-Semitism.  Modern and postmodern minds may scoff at this explanation. “We don’t believe in gods,” they may say, “and so don’t believe in idols.” But that’s just the deities’ toxic nectar talking. Of course you worship idols; you just call them “the climate,” and “social justice,” and “the nation,” and “equity,” and “autonomy,” and “getting high,” and “trans rights,” and “the market” and “safety,” and “diversity” and “inclusion,” and “war,” and “Republicans” and “Democrats,” and, above all, “ME, ME, ME.”    The Jews were the first to put a pox on all these houses, generating the initial crack in the self-induced spell that dupes us into believing, like Adam and Eve, that we have the power to fabricate our own made-to-order divinities. Same as it always was, anti-Semites of both left and right are thus not seeking freedom, liberation, or justice for themselves or anyone else. They are seeking revenge on the original truth tellers, desperately and delusionally hoping that erasing the messengers will somehow erase the message.   
Dr. Matthew Petrusek; One Hate to Unite Them All: The Idolatry of Anti-Semitism
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zinniajones · 2 months
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We continue to heap tributes upon the snake 🐍 ⚖️
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exit-babylon · 2 months
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Pope Francis holding a staff representing the Gnostic kundalini shaft with the twin serpents leading up to the pineal gland (third eye) activation. This is present on the Baphomet as his phallus.
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allscripture · 11 months
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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5 (NIV)
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she-is-amused · 7 months
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Such is the essence of idolatry — asking the gods we make to help us get all we want. The essence of Christianity is asking the God who made us to help us give all we can in service to Him. The goal of idolatry is self-glory; the aim of Christianity is God’s glory.
- notes from my Study Bible
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kecobe · 1 year
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Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (Italian; 1678–1745) ca. between 1695 and 1700 Oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father. Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded. (1 Kings 11:7)
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