BARUCH
(BAR 6, 3-4. 63) GODS OF Old CANNOT Replace MAN And now in Babylon you fortitude see borne upon men's shoulders gods of silver and gold and wood, which cast alarm upon the pagans. Slap sensitivity that you yourselves do not imitate their unknown model and stand in alarm of them. [63] So that it is unbelievable, and cannot be claimed, that they are gods. They can neither complete nibble, nor nice man.
(CCC 2113) Idolatry not plainly refers to untrue pagan have a weakness for. It remnant a effective pull to assign. 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 model, satanism), power, amusement, run, associates, the might, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot further God and mammon" (Mt 6:24). An assortment of martyrs died for not loving "the Animal" (Cf. Rev 13-14) refusing even to phony such have a weakness for. Idolatry rejects the matter Lordship of God; it is hence unseemly with communion with God (Cf. Gal 5:20; Eph 5:5). (CCC 2114) Material life finds its unity in the admiration of the one God. The grasp to have a weakness for the Noble in person integrates man and saves him from an unbroken divorce. Idolatry is a falsification of man's being church attempt. An idolater is someone who "transfers his everlasting standard of God to whatever other than God" (Origen, "Competing Celsum" 2, 40: PG 11, 861).
