Nope. They "all" worship God alone.
Unlike Roman Catholic apologists who spread their love around.
INDEED.
Though I’m not sure it’s really love they spread around.
Maybe it is.
At least for some.
It’s just that . . . some . . . purported “devotion, adoration” . . . seems somehow . . . almost a different category.
Does an alcoholic love his alcohol? Some do. Many don’t.
Is a fixation love? Is an obsession love?
It’s a puzzle.
What does it mean to love The Lord God with all our being and others as ourselves?
How does one do that with a plethera of love objects?
It is easy for me to love all the students in each class. So I think I have some idea.
But what if I was obsessed with half the students say on the right side? Wouldn’t that have some implications for my affections toward the students on the left side?
And is being obsessed with a purported love object really about adoring the love object or is it about some sort of dysfunctional desperate need on my part?
Certainly we all desperately NEED GOD more than we need breath, air, food, water.
He died that we might be FRIENDS.
Let’s say that 2 identical twin teen brothers out of a 12 member extremely loving family of parents and 10 kids were all who were left out of say a plane crash. They had the ‘special twin language’ etc. They were all each other had left.
I can imagine two different states . . . one intense, unusually intensely loving yet not obsessive.
The other desperately super needy obsessive.
Which would be MORE LOVING in the Godly sense?
I don’t really have definitive answers. I’m just chewing on this.
And I think that somewhere in such . . . a range of dynamics . . . there are implications for idolatry—for all of us of all labels.
I could ramble on but I think I’ll leave it there for now.
I’m interested in other thoughts on such issues.