False religion
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· 13 viewsThe worship of anything that is not God, including any form of religion that fails to do justice to the glory and majesty of God. Scripture criticises both the practices and the beliefs of false religions.
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The nature of false religion
The nature of false religion
Man-made images are worshipped
Man-made images are worshipped
Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.
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Created things are worshipped
Created things are worshipped
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Secular authorities are worshipped
Secular authorities are worshipped
The dragon in Revelation may be understood as the devil and the beast as the antichrist: the forces at work behind the human authorities that defy the rule of God.
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Demons are worshipped
Demons are worshipped
They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
whom your ancestors had not feared.
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False religion is based on man-made traditions, myths and philosophies
False religion is based on man-made traditions, myths and philosophies
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False religious practices
False religious practices
Immorality
Immorality
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree; there were also male temple prostitutes in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice
They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire; they used divination and augury; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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False religion ensnares its adherents
False religion ensnares its adherents
It offers no help in time of need
It offers no help in time of need
and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.
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It prevents people from finding the truth
It prevents people from finding the truth
Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.
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It devalues, degrades and defiles
It devalues, degrades and defiles
They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their ancestors, and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
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It leads to immorality
It leads to immorality
While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
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It enslaves
It enslaves
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.
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False religion receives the full force of God’s anger
False religion receives the full force of God’s anger
And I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
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