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From: David Lafleche Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: {dbilg} Re: Need some answers digging for the truth. Anything that you love equal to or more than God is an idol. Also, any false idea of God that you harbor in your mind is an idol. David -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] To: ; Subject: {dbilg} Need some answers digging for the truth. Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:26:48 -0800 Hello to all, I need some answers concerning something. I had someone tell me that I was putting different things as idols. When I did the research, I didn't find that to be true. I recognize the my research is not exhostive though. I wrote down some questions. it has made me depressed over the last few days. this whole issue has caused upset. The thing is that I Love the Lord above anyone or anything else. I've been told by this one person that I've put a celebrety in front of god as an idol. Then this same person told me that I was putting my stuffed animals before God as an idol and transfering my unborn childrens' lives into them and living their lives vicariously through the stuffed animals. I was shocked! I use the stuffed animals for several reasons. First, I bring them to support group to let those who also bring their animals to places like our group know that they are safe and won't get made fun of for doing this kind of thing. who am I to tell someone to grow up when they are injured inside? Second, I will sleep with a stuffie when Todd isn't available. and third, I will cuddle a stuffed animal when I'm really upset rather than choosing to cuddle a living animal as the stress I feel can definitely transfer to the living animal and cause them problems. River, for example will have a loose stewel after a stressful situation. Knowing this, I will do what I have to in order to not put him through a lot of stress. this person said that I was talking to a stufed animal like a real person. I have be racking my brain for the last several days trying to figure out when I could have done such a thing. Besides, I talk to things all the time. "No. Stay there! don't fall!" I'm thinking that she thought I was talking to a stuffy when I could have actually been talking to her and she didn't hear me properly. Otherwise I'm just dumbfounded. she has made me feel guilt and shame insteady of conviction. this has totally messed with my head. I know normal, sighted every day people who sleep with stuffies and play with dolls. Part of me wants to ask, are they worshiping them too? I know that's not nice, but making me feel like I'm a bad person and so way far off the beaten path isn't okay either. I do grown up adult about 90 to 95 percent of the day, but I'm not invencible grown up 1-- percent of the time. I don't like it that someone has the nerve to tell me that I'm bad and wrong for being different. I take putting idols before God very seriously and so please, I'd love your input on this matter. I'm not trying to start an argument. After I paste this and you feel it best, please feel free to email me off list. I'm not trying to start a problem. I'm actually trying to get to the truth. I just know that I Love the Lord more than anything or anyone else, including my husband. so here is what I've found. If nothing else, please pray for me to take the right steps to grow and to only be in god's will. Hugs and blessings, Sean 1. Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face and then goes to a prophet, I the LORD will answer him myself in keeping with his great idolatry. Ezekiel 14:3-5 (in Context) 1. 1 Corinthians 10:14 [ Idol Feasts and the Lord's Supper ] Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 1 Corinthians 10:13-15 1. Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Colossians 3:4-6 Idol 1. Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Exodus 20:3-5 1. Exodus 32:4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt." Exodus 32:3-5 (in Context) Why would we want to worship an inatomate object instead of the real true living one and only God? What can an inatimate object do for us that God cannot? 1. Exodus 34:17 "Do not make cast idols. We know not to make cast idols and graven images and take inatimate objects as our god or idol. How does this translate into turning a live human being into an idol? What might worshiping that human look like? What is the difference between making an idol out of a human or inatimate object and just being destracted by it? 1. Leviticus 19:4 " 'Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:3-5 1. Leviticus 26:1 [ Reward for Obedience ] " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. So, how important is it to not have idols before God? 1. Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. How do you think God feels when His people make idols and worship them instead of Him. golden calf favorite eidolon fetish icon dear deity More Synonyms » –noun 1. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed. 2. Bible. a. an image of a deity other than God. b. the deity itself. 3. any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion: Madame Curie had been her childhood idol. 4. a mere image or semblance of something, visible but without substance, as a phantom. 5. a figment of the mind; fantasy. 6. a false conception or notion; fallacy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Origin: 1200–50; ME < LL īdōlum < Gk eídōlon image, idol, deriv. of eîdos shape, form Synonyms: 1. See image. 3. favorite, darling, pet. When looking at these definitions from the dictionary, are there any idols that you struggle with? Distraction Synonyms aberration diversion preoccupation confusion interference engrossment commotion –noun 1. the act of distracting. 2. the state of being distracted. 3. mental distress or derangement: That child will drive me to distraction. 4. that which distracts, divides the attention, or prevents concentration: The distractions of the city interfere with my studies. 5. that which amuses, entertains, or diverts; amusement; entertainment: Fishing is his major distraction. 6. division or disorder caused by dissension; tumult. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Origin: Distracted Synonyms distressed frenzied abstracted inattentive disturbed distraught preoccupied –adjective 1. having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry. 2. rendered incapable of behaving, reacting, etc., in a normal manner, as by worry, remorse, or the like; irrational; disturbed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can a distraction be an idon? 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