Idolatry

Why idolatria instead of idololatria?

Why idolatria instead of idololatria?
  1. What is idolatria in Greek?
  2. What is idolatry in the Bible mean?
  3. What is considered idolatry today?

What is idolatria in Greek?

The word idolatry comes (by haplology) from the Greek word eidololatria, a compound of eidolon, "image" or "figure", and latreia, "worship".

What is idolatry in the Bible mean?

idolatry, in Judaism and Christianity, the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “You shall have no other gods before me.”

What is considered idolatry today?

Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc.

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