Oxford Dictionary
Idolatry
1. The worship of idols;
the offering of
divine honours to
a created object.
2. Excessive devotion to or
veneration for
a person or
thing;
adoration
Oxford Dictionary
Venerate
1. Regard with deep respect; revere on account of sanctity, character, etc.
2. Pay honour to ( something ) by an act of deference.
[
⠀God Created the Sun, Moon, Planets.
⠀Worshiping them is
Idolatry.
⠀Etymology.
⠀The name "Sunday",
⠀"the day of the Sun" (Star)
⠀that our Planets Orbit.
⠀Who Created the Sun? God did.
⠀Did He Create it for Worship? No.
⠀So what happens if you
⠀⠀make the Sun an Object of Worship?
⠀What is that called?
⠀It is called
Idolatry.
⠀Who Created the First Day
⠀⠀of the Week? God did.
⠀Did he create the First Day
⠀⠀of the Week (first day of seven days)
⠀⠀for worship? No.
⠀He created it for work.
⠀So what if man makes the First Day
⠀⠀of the Week for worship?
⠀What is that called?
⠀It is called
Idolatry.
⠀It does not matter
⠀⠀whether it is an object or a day.
⠀Anything that man makes and or establishes for Worship is
Idolatry.
]
The little horn
of the book of Daniel
who shall think to change
times [ i.e., a Holy Day ].
{Daniel 7:25}
And
he shall speak [great] words
against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of
the most High, and
think to change
times and
laws: and
they shall be given into his hand
until
a time and
times and
the dividing of time.
Changing God's Holy Day
the 7th Day
which God created and made
Sanctified,
Blessed,
made
Holy or
Hallowed
⠀"
At Creation"
Changing God's Holy Day
from the 7th Day
to the 1st Day
and
worshipping
the new and changed
time
is
Idolatry.
◯
God's Law
does Not Change ◯
◯
Venerating and Worshiping on a Day God did
not:
Sanctify,
Bless,
make
Holy,
Hallow
is
Idolatry.
God
Never called [ Sunday ( 1st Day of Week ) ]:
Sanctified,
Blessed,
Holy or
Hallowed.
God Only called [ Saturday (
Sabbath ) ( 7th Day of Week ) ]:
Sanctified,
Blessed,
Holy or
Hallowed
All other Days
Day 1,
Day 2,
Day 3,
Day 4,
Day 5,
Day 6
are Work Days.
◯
Sabbath Day was:
⠀blessed and
⠀Sanctified
⠀⠀⠀= Set apart as Sacred or
⠀⠀⠀declared Holy,
⠀⠀⠀made fit for religious use.
⠀"At Creation"
[
⠀holy = H6944 qodesh ko-desh
⠀from H6942
⠀a sacred place or thing;
⠀rarely abstract, sanctity: -
⠀consecrated (thing),
⠀dedicated (thing),
⠀hallowed (thing),
⠀holiness,
⠀(most) holy (x day, portion, thing)
⠀saint, sanctuary
]
The Sabbath was
made for all Humans
Not just the Jews
which came into existance
2,000 + years after
the Sabbath was made
"At Creation".
◯
{Genesis 2:3}
And
God
blessed
the
seventh day, and
sanctified it:
because that in
it
he had rested from all
his work
which
God created and made.
{Exodus 20:8}
Remember
the
sabbath day,
to
keep it
holy.
{Exodus 20:11}
For [in] six days
the
LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them [
is,] and
rested the
seventh day:
wherefore the
LORD blessed
the
sabbath day, and
hallowed it.
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Samuel's 3 denotations:
⠀(1) faith in sorcery and omens is equivalent to opposition against God;
⠀(2) pleonastic reasoning is as empty as the extravagent rituals of idol worship;
⠀(3) aggrandizement offerings and contributions are no substitute for obedience to God;
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{1st Samuel 15:23}
For
rebellion [is as]
the sin of witchcraft, and
stubbornness [is as]
iniquity and
idolatry.
Because
thou hast rejected
the word of the LORD,
he hath also
rejected thee
from [being] king.
{2nd Kings 23:5}
And
he put down
the
idolatrous priests,
whom
the kings of Judah
had ordained to
burn incense in
the high places in
the cities of Judah, and
in the places round about
Jerusalem;
them also
that burned incense unto
Baal,
to the sun, and
to the moon, and
to the planets, and
to all the host of heaven.
{Acts 17:16}
Now
while
Paul waited for them at Athens,
his spirit was stirred in him,
when
he saw the city
wholly given to
idolatry.
{1st Corinthians 5:10}
Yet
not altogether with
the fornicators
of this world, or
with the covetous, or
extortioners, or
with
idolaters;
for then
must ye needs
go out of the world.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{1st Corinthians 5:11}
But
now I have written unto you
not to keep company,
if
any man that is called
a brother be
a fornicator, or
covetous, or
an
idolater, or
a railer, or
a drunkard, or
an extortioner;
with such an one
no not to eat.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{1st Corinthians 6:9}
Know ye not
that
the unrighteous
shall not inherit
the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived:
neither fornicators,
nor
idolaters,
nor adulterers,
nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{1st Corinthians 6:10}
Nor thieves,
nor covetous,
nor drunkards,
nor revilers,
nor extortioners,
shall inherit
the kingdom of God.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{1st Corinthians 10:7}
Neither be ye
idolaters,
as [were]
some of them;
as it is written,
The people sat down to eat and
drink, and
rose up to play.
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{1st Corinthians 10:14}
Wherefore,
my dearly beloved,
flee from
idolatry.
{Galatians 5:20}
Idolatry,
witchcraft,
hatred,
variance,
emulations,
wrath,
strife,
seditions,
heresies,
⠀⠀⠀⠀
{Galatians 5:21}
Envyings,
murders,
drunkenness,
revellings, and
such like:
of the which
I tell you before,
as I have also told [you]
in time past,
that
they
which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
{Ephesians 5:5}
For this ye know,
that
no whoremonger,
nor unclean person,
nor covetous man,
who is
an
idolater,
hath any inheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and
of God.
{Colossians 3:5}
Mortify
therefore
your members
which are upon the earth;
fornication,
uncleanness,
inordinate affection,
evil concupiscence, and
covetousness,
which is
idolatry:
{1st Peter 4:3}
For
the time past
of [our] life
may suffice us
to have wrought
the will of
the Gentiles,
when we walked in
lasciviousness,
lusts,
excess of wine,
revellings,
banquetings, and
abominable
idolatries:
{Revelation 21:8}
But
the fearful, and
unbelieving, and
the abominable, and
murderers, and
whoremongers, and
sorcerers, and
idolaters, and
all liars,
shall have their part in
the lake
which burneth with
fire and brimstone:
which is the second death.
{Revelation 22:15}
For
without [are]
dogs, and
sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and
murderers, and
idolaters, and
whosoever
loveth and
maketh a lie.
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