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The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām), written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), is the most popular of the Islamic-era works about the gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions. [1]
Remains of the Nergal Gate in Nineveh, Iraq. The phrase false god is a derogatory term used in Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) to indicate cult images or deities of non-Abrahamic Pagan religions, as well as other competing entities or objects to which particular importance is attributed.
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. 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 Baháʼí Faith) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
The History of Life and Death (1638) [19] is a treatise on medicine, with observations natural and experimental for the prolonging of life. He opens, in the Preface, stating his hope and desire that the work would contribute to the common good, and that through it the physicians would become "instruments and dispensers of God's power and mercy ...
Abraham and the Idol Shop is a midrash that appears in Genesis Rabbah chapter 38. It tells about the early life of Abraham. The commentary explains what happened to Abraham when he was a young boy working in his father's idol shop. The story has been used as a way to discuss monotheism and faith in general.
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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. Idolatry in the Hebrew Bible is defined as the worship of idols (or images); the worship of polytheistic gods by use of idols (or images) and even the ...
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.