It is so easy to fall into the idolatry of women. Be it for their beauty, femininity, fertility, mothering aspect, or marital relations aspect. Most religions have had goddesses as their primary focus of worship.
This may stem from a rejection of men or masculinity or jealousy over their apparent authority/favoritism from God. Or perhaps it stems from anger at Christ for coming as a man and not a woman. Or perhaps from anger at God for referring to Himself in the masculine. Or perhaps from anger at God for making man first. Or perhaps from anger at God for making woman as a helpmeet to man. Or perhaps from anger at God for the curse women are currently under due to their part in the Fall. Or perhaps from simple loneliness or rejection or anger at God for loneliness or rejection.
Satan uses these kinds of feelings to assist him in twisting the Truth into what a particular person would rather see as true.
It is far wiser to approach God and ask Him how He feels about women and their place in His Heart. Women do not need to be elevated to goddesses in order to be loved by God. And the manner of woman’s creation and purpose does not require a raise to goddesshood to be acceptable to the woman herself. And, as great as some feel women are, always remember that God created women and He can create stuff *even better* than that. So it is wise to put the Creator of women even higher than you place woman.
Idolatry has to be the hardest trap to get out of. That is probably why God hates it so much. You have to keep reminding yourself that no matter how much you like something, it is NOTHING compared to God. There should never be a question in anyone’s mind that you are putting some created thing before the Creator. The things that He can create have not even been imagined yet by us.
O- Ship, Do me a favor and go write a book on the analyzation of yourself and why you feel the need to write about things you don’t understand just to amuse yourself.
I”m very well grounded in my Catholic Faith and don’t elevate Mary to a goddess. Mary is the humblest “creature” created by God.
Why don’t you try to imitate her humility,it would do you well
Do you see any relationship between this phenomenon and feminism?
“”Idolatry has to be the hardest trap to get out of.””
I was actually concerned with you regarding this by the way you seem to “oogle” over Quix..
The following is from some of your posts to Quix
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2401712/posts?page=41#41
Thank you so mush for giving me the honor of being a part of your special ping group. You can’t really know what it means to me.
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2365474/posts?page=345#345
He’s just saying that to get a rise out of you. He could care less about the truth
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2365474/posts?page=201#201
Wow you really rattled a few cocoons on this thread.
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1607979/posts?page=215#215
Oh cool. If you like that I have more.
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2470878/posts?page=384#384
Thank you, Quix. You are always so kind and so forgiving and so loving to everyone on every thread you post on. Even me.
Outership to Quix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2470878/posts?page=366#366
You got it in one, Quix.