Another fine work Citizen. Timely, accurate, relevant, pointed, important. Gattaca was well done.
I would add - human beings are worshippers by nature. It is how God wired us. We are spiritual beings first, physical ones second. Worship is spiritual in nature. It is unavoidable. Inevitable.
Part of the problem of despising the one who crea…
Another fine work Citizen. Timely, accurate, relevant, pointed, important. Gattaca was well done.
I would add - human beings are worshippers by nature. It is how God wired us. We are spiritual beings first, physical ones second. Worship is spiritual in nature. It is unavoidable. Inevitable.
Part of the problem of despising the one who created you is that a perverted, disordered worship system will replace the one you were designed to exist within. All human beings are powerfully inclined to indulge this perversion, the result of Adam's fall. The ancients had better clarity, because they weren't inclined to lie about their spiritual nature. They called it idolatry.
Bottom line. When the one who created you is the only entity you truly worship, then politicians, sportsballers, actors, money, success, importance, legacy, whatever it is that you would potentially make an idol, falls away. The Holy Spirit provides discernment. The necessity for the false god withers away, its falsehood transparent.
If you truly love Truth, then you are necessarily inoculated against idolatry, or false heroes, as you describe them. At the same time, it is quite predictable, in a society that despises Truth, that every sort of idolatry would be rampant.
"The ancients had better clarity, because they weren't inclined to lie about their spiritual nature. They called it idolatry. Bottom line. When the one who created you is the only entity you truly worship, then politicians, sportsballers, actors, money, success, importance, legacy, whatever it is that you would potentially make an idol, falls away."
Excellent observations Jody! Superb. Thank you.
And sadly very true...
"it is quite predictable, in a society that despises Truth, that every sort of idolatry would be rampant."
Wow Jody... absolutely spot on. Those who truly have the discernment of the Holy Spirit will recognize Truth. Worshipping false idols (heros) is repugnant to those with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That being said, most Christians do not have the Holy Spirit. It's not as easy as saying a few words, and then bingo, one gets the Holy Spirit. Knock and the door will be opened. What that means is, if one SINCERELY yearns for Truth, and persues Truth dodgedly and without flinching... eventually they will receive the Holy Spirit.
Another fine work Citizen. Timely, accurate, relevant, pointed, important. Gattaca was well done.
I would add - human beings are worshippers by nature. It is how God wired us. We are spiritual beings first, physical ones second. Worship is spiritual in nature. It is unavoidable. Inevitable.
Part of the problem of despising the one who created you is that a perverted, disordered worship system will replace the one you were designed to exist within. All human beings are powerfully inclined to indulge this perversion, the result of Adam's fall. The ancients had better clarity, because they weren't inclined to lie about their spiritual nature. They called it idolatry.
Bottom line. When the one who created you is the only entity you truly worship, then politicians, sportsballers, actors, money, success, importance, legacy, whatever it is that you would potentially make an idol, falls away. The Holy Spirit provides discernment. The necessity for the false god withers away, its falsehood transparent.
If you truly love Truth, then you are necessarily inoculated against idolatry, or false heroes, as you describe them. At the same time, it is quite predictable, in a society that despises Truth, that every sort of idolatry would be rampant.
"The ancients had better clarity, because they weren't inclined to lie about their spiritual nature. They called it idolatry. Bottom line. When the one who created you is the only entity you truly worship, then politicians, sportsballers, actors, money, success, importance, legacy, whatever it is that you would potentially make an idol, falls away."
Excellent observations Jody! Superb. Thank you.
And sadly very true...
"it is quite predictable, in a society that despises Truth, that every sort of idolatry would be rampant."
Wow Jody... absolutely spot on. Those who truly have the discernment of the Holy Spirit will recognize Truth. Worshipping false idols (heros) is repugnant to those with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That being said, most Christians do not have the Holy Spirit. It's not as easy as saying a few words, and then bingo, one gets the Holy Spirit. Knock and the door will be opened. What that means is, if one SINCERELY yearns for Truth, and persues Truth dodgedly and without flinching... eventually they will receive the Holy Spirit.