Dabney on Counterfeit Gods

by Dec 5, 2009Piety2 comments

We conceive formal idolatry, as that of the Hindu, a very foolish and flagrant thing; we palliate… spiritual idolatry of passions. God classes them together, in order to show us the enormity of the latter.

Robert L. Dabney, Systematic Theology (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1985), 443.

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  1. Mark L Ward Jr

    Read it just now. Thank you!