Catechism of the Catholic Church: Difference between revisions

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* '''idolatry'''
* '''idolatry'''
** putting anything else above God
** putting anything else above God
** from "idol" = for "false god"
** Book of Wisdom, 13:10:
** idol contains also sense of an image
But wretched are they, and in dead things are their hopes,
*** has origin in PIE '''oid-''' for "seeming, like, like that of..."
who termed gods things made by human hands;
*** and Greek ''-oeidēs'' from ''eidos'' "form," ''idein'' "to see," and ''eidenai'' "to know, to see"  
* from "idol" = for "false god"
**** from PIE '''*weid-''' "to see"
* idol contains also sense of an image
** idolatry means to put anything above god, be it an idol, other god, Satan, pride, sin, money, etc.
** has origin in PIE '''oid-''' for "seeming, like, like that of..."
*** see CC 2113:
** and Greek ''-oeidēs'' from ''eidos'' "form," ''idein'' "to see," and ''eidenai'' "to know, to see"  
**** "Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God."
*** from PIE '''*weid-''' "to see"
* idolatry means to put anything above god, be it an idol, other god, Satan, pride, sin, money, etc.
** see CC 2113:
*** "Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God."
 
* '''IHS'''
* '''IHS'''
** the first three letters of the Greek word for Jesus, '''ΙΗΣΟΥΣ'''
** the first three letters of the Greek word for Jesus, '''ΙΗΣΟΥΣ'''