WHAT IS IDOLATRY?
1. The Exchange of Idolatry (Romans 1:21, 25)
2. The Punishment for Idolatry (Ephesians 5:5-6)
3. The Rescue from Idolatry (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10)
Question 17: What is idolatry?
Answer: Idolatry is trusting in created things rather than the Creator for our hope and happiness, significance and security (WCF 2.2; 21.1–2; 22.1; WSC 46–48; WLC 105–106).
Question 18: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
Answer: No, God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them both in this life and in the life to come (WCF 5.5–6; 6.6; 33.1–2; WSC 19; 84–85; WLC 28–29; 152).
