Idolatry Study

So I haven't come up with a good name/title for this blog entry. However, I would like to say "Hello again!" I know I haven't had a blog post in nearly one year! So, I am back in action and getting things going with my blog again. Worth While is still in the works.The WW newspaper isn't out yet but that will be in the works I am sure at some point (maybe not soon but at some point.) In having gotten that out of the way, I will be doing a study of different topics weekly and writing about the topic of the week daily. This weeks topic is idolatry. Here is a short exert of the study I conducted tonight. Here are some of my findings.

Idols are some of the main issue that comes in between people and God, and also people and salvation through God. Here are some explanations of the bible speaking of needing to stay away from idolatry and me explaining the definition of idolatry.

First Corinthians 10:7 says, "Don't become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play."

First Corinthians 10:14 says, "Therefore my friends flee from idolatry."

As first Corinthians 10:7 is very relatable to today's world and even sometimes in the church when people eat and drink (with alcohol or without) they have sex and give to those kinds of idols like going and hearing musicians and singers perform all while holding them on a pedestal and worshipping them like gods.

First John 5:21 says, "Little children guard yourselves from idols."You may ask yourself, " Now what exactly is an idol or having an idol?" An idol by definition,is having an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship. So putting something or someone in the place of God where the object or person becomes a god to them; which pushes the real God with a big "G" to the side and out of their (or your) life.

Idols are not good and reduce the level of holiness and wholesome God from your life and leave you with a weight of a heavily sinful lifestyle that can lead to pain, guilt, shame and many more unpleasant emotions and "side effects" of sin -- as we could call them.

Stay away from idols!