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Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism , Samaritanism , Christianity , Islam , and the BaháΚΌí Faith ) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
In the context of Christianity, the term bibliolatry may be used to characterize either extreme devotion to the Bible or the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. [11] Supporters of biblical inerrancy point to passages (such as 2 Timothy 3:16–17 [12]), interpreted to say that the Bible, as received, is a complete source of what must be known about God.
The Person of Jesus was thought to reveal not only the Word of God (1Jn 1:1–4), but the image of God . Pre-Christian scriptures defined idolatry as worshipping of false gods. Church leaders defended images of Christ on the basis that they were representations of the true incarnation of God and clarified the relationship between an image and ...
Idolatry is the worship of an idol or cult image, being a physical image, such as a statue, or a person in place of God. Subcategories. This category has the ...
One who idolizes Shakespeare is known as a bardolator. The term bardolatry, derived from Shakespeare's sobriquet "the Bard of Avon" and the Greek word latria "worship" (as in idolatry, worship of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901.
A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.
Idolatry is prohibited by many verses in the Old Testament, but there is no one section that clearly defines idolatry.Rather there are a number of commandments on this subject spread through the books of the Hebrew Bible, some of which were written in different historical eras, in response to different issues.
In the Mishnah and Talmud, idolatry is defined as worshipping a graven image through the actions of both typical idol worshippers, and through actions customarily reserved for worship of the Jewish God in the Temple in Jerusalem, such as prostrating, sacrificing animals, offering incense, or sprinkling animal blood on altars.