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We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry is unavailable, but you can change that!

The heart of the biblical understanding of idolatry, argues Gregory Beale, is that we take on the characteristics of what we worship. Employing Isaiah 6 as his interpretive lens, Beale demonstrates that this understanding of idolatry permeates the whole canon, from Genesis to Revelation. Beale concludes with an application of the biblical notion of idolatry to the challenges of contemporary...

We are going to analyze what the Israelites reflected by looking first at Isaiah 6, which contains threads that go back to the beginning of Israel’s history. The passage not only contains themes that have roots in Israel’s beginning but also that go forward into subsequent parts of the Old Testament, the New Testament and even to the last book of the Bible. Therefore, it is through the lens of this Old Testament passage that we will
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