8 Bible Verses about Polytheism
Most Relevant Verses
For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.
For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.
For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.
You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.
While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was.
and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and drawn away numbers of people, telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.
Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse, for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools,read more.
and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles.
What am I saying then? That there is any such thing as being offered to an idol, or any such thing as an idol? No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.