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• IdolatryBible

  Idolatry is the worship of gods other than God or of images made by human hands. Scripture forbids it in the Ten Commandments and treats it as a fundamental sin that breaks the covenant.

• Food Sacrificed to IdolsBible

  Food sacrificed to idols is a New Testament term for meat and other food that had been offered to pagan gods and was then eaten or sold in the marketplace. Acts, 1 Corinthians, and Revelation address whether believers may eat it.

• Food Offered to IdolsBible

  Food offered to idols is a biblical term for food, especially meat, that had been sacrificed to pagan gods. Through the warnings of the Old Testament and the New Testament discussion in 1 Corinthians 8–10, it is treated as a matter of the believer's conscience and fellowship.

• Micah's IdolBible

  Micah's idol refers to an episode recorded in Judges 17–18. Micah, an Ephraimite, made an idol for his household and established a private priesthood. The tribe of Dan later seized both and installed them at its new settlement, Dan.

• TeraphimBible

  Teraphim are household idols mentioned in the Old Testament, generally thought to have been venerated in the home or used for divination. They appear in the accounts of Rachel and Michal and are condemned as a form of idolatry in the prophetic and legal traditions.

• Jeremiah 10Bible

  Jeremiah 10 contrasts the idols of the nations, carved from wood by human hands, with the living LORD who made heaven and earth, and records Judah's lament and prayer in the face of disaster approaching from the north.

• Jeremiah 8Bible

  Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.

• 1 Corinthians 10Bible

  First Corinthians 10 warns against idolatry, holding up the failures of Israel in the wilderness as an example. It then declares that believers cannot partake of both the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils, and on the question of food offered to idols, it sets forth the conscience of one's neighbor and the glory of God as the guiding standards.

• 1 John 5:21Bible Verses

  1 John 5:21 is the final verse of the First Epistle of John. In it the author addresses his readers as "little children" and urges them to keep themselves from idols. Because this closing seems abrupt and not directly connected to what precedes it, interpreters differ over what the "idols" refer to.

• Ancestral Rites and Memorial ServicesControversies

  The question of whether ancestral rites should be forbidden as idolatry or regarded as a cultural expression of filial piety. Korean Protestant churches have prohibited ancestral rites and have instead held memorial services.

• Genesis 35Bible

  In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.

• 1 Corinthians 8Bible

  1 Corinthians 8 addresses the question of eating food offered to idols. Paul places love above knowledge and teaches that one's freedom must not cause a brother who is weak in faith to stumble.

• Psalm 115Bible

  Psalm 115 is a hymn of praise that contrasts the powerlessness of man-made idols with the LORD who is in heaven, calling God's people to give glory to God alone and to trust in the LORD. It is one of the Hallel psalms (Psalms 113–118).

• Isaiah 41Bible

  Isaiah 41 is the chapter in which the LORD summons the nations and their idols to court to establish who governs history, and in which he tells his servant Israel, "Fear thou not," promising help and restoration.

• Hosea 9Bible

  Hosea 9 is a prophecy of judgment declaring that, because of the idolatry of the northern kingdom of Israel (Ephraim), the joy of harvest and the feasts will come to an end, the people will be scattered to Egypt and Assyria, and their offspring will be cut off.

• Generational Curse TheoryControversies

  Generational curse theory is the teaching that curses pass down to descendants because of their ancestors' sins or idolatry and must therefore be broken through prayer. Several Korean denominations have judged it unbiblical.

• Hosea 8:7Bible Verses

  A verse that indicts the Northern Kingdom of Israel for idolatry and futile political dependence, pronouncing judgment through the agricultural image of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. It is often quoted to mean that wrong choices bring even greater calamity.

• Isaiah 46:9Bible Verses

  A verse in which the God of Israel contrasts himself with the idols of Babylon and declares, "I am God, and there is none else." It is frequently cited in discussions of monotheism and the sovereignty of God.

• 1 Corinthians 8:4–6Bible Verses

  In this passage, Paul addresses the question of food sacrificed to idols by affirming that an idol is nothing and that there is one God, and he confesses God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ together. It is frequently cited in discussions of early Christian Christology, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the question of food offered in ancestral rites.