Pyatcast

Category: Idolatry

  • Trust Jesus More than Francis Trusts Joseph!

    It is reported that Jorge Bergoglio aka Pope Francis explained that he deals with stresses (for example, “There is corruption in the Vatican.”) by writing letters to Joseph and entrusting them to him. According to the article, “The 80-year-old says his secret for dealing with stress is to write down all his problems in letters…

  • Early Father Worshiping with Icons?

    I was listening to a recent panel discussion with William Albrecht and David Withun and a caller called in and asked if they could name any father before the 300s that used images in the church. Albrecht pointed to Tertullian, in his work on Modesty. In that work he makes reference to the image of…

  • Irony of Idolatry in Francis of Rome’s Remarks and the Split Tenth Commandment

    Francis of Rome recently was reported as saying (VIS, 9 June 2013): “We shouldn’t see the Ten Commandments as restriction upon our freedom; no, not that way. We should see them as signs for our freedom. … They teach us how to avoid the slavery to which the many idols that we ourselves build reduce…

  • Rhetorical Excess – Religious Persecution and Idolatry

    Rhetorical flourishes are like any other form of emphasis.  They work well when used occasionally and accurately, and not when used constantly and diffusely. In her book, The Myth of Persecution, Dr. Moss complains that the religious right in the U.S. is too quick to decry leftist politics as religious persecution.  Claiming that “Christianity is…

  • When You Ignore the Scriptures …

    You get this tragic tale about a “deeply religious man” who was seriously injured by a falling crucifix (link). Isaiah 41:7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not…

  • … now and at the hour of our death.

    Thanks to Steve Hays for pointing me to a recent report of man who, while trying to rescue his idol from her peril found himself her victim, as she collapsed on top of him. It is a sad story, but illustrative of the foolishness of idolatry. The idol could not pray for the man either…

  • Thomas Adam on Idols and Idolatry

    The following is an excerpt from a sermon by Thomas Adam: Idols.—Idol, in Greek, signifies a resemblance or representation, and differs not from image in Latin; both at first taken in a good sense, but the corruption of times hath bred a corruption of words, and idol is now only taken for the image of…

  • Idolatry Defined

    “IDOL, ‘i-dol [1 Kings xv. 13], IDOLATRY. [Acts xvii. 16.] Whatever receives the worship which is due only to God is an idol. In a figurative sense the word denotes anything which draws the affections from God [Col. iii. 5]; and, in a restricted sense, it denotes the visible image or figure to which religious…

  • Carl Trueman’s "Reasons … For Moving Romeward"

    No, Carl Trueman isn’t moving Romeward, but he has post listing reasons that he thinks people give for leaving (link to post). But the reasons given for leaving was not exactly the question posed to him. The question posed to him was the reasons that people leave for Rome. Trueman listed a lot of salient…

  • Further Response to Mr. Albrecht Regarding Debate on Veneration of Images

    In a new video (audio + slideshow only), Mr. Albrecht has responded to the comments in my post (link to post) regarding the debate. This is in addition to the comments he submitted to me by email, and which are already addressed in the original post via an update to that post. I’ve provided the…