Idolatry is the worship of idols, that is is the worship of an image, object, or symbol as having in itself some divine or supernatural power, and being able in some way to respond to the worship paid to it, such images or objects being called idols; or the adoration of something merely natural as something supernatural and divine. Many have regarded idolatry as a declension from 'the one true god', and have seen in the various forms of non-christian belief only more or less complete degradations of an original revelation. Others see in idolatry an innate searching after god, and regard it as the first stage of human development, the necessary beginning of a knowledge of god. Idolatry may assume various forms; it may consist in a worship of the powers of nature, or of the heavenly bodies, or in animal worship, or in the worship of images representing mere fanciful and imaginary deities, or in the still lower fetichism. Research Idolatry
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