Different forms of idolatry today

Different forms of idolatry today 

What really is idolatry today?  Is it the statutes in Churches, movies, money, personal things, homes, property, people (stars of sports, movies, etc.) and many more things that can be added?  Yes, but no.  These are but an example of what is idolatry.  The Apostle Paul tells us what is idolatry and there are 5 different areas in our lives that idolatry is located and we are to avoid these areas and to put them to death in our personal life (worldly impulses.)   

What are these 5 areas: 

1. Fornication (sexual sin):  porneia  por-ni'-ah

From G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively idolatry: - fornication. 

2. Uncleanness (impurity): akatharsia   ak-ath-ar-see'-ah

From G169; impurity (the quality), physically or morally: - uncleanness. 

3. Passion (inordinate affection):   pathos  path'-os

From the alternate of G3958; properly suffering (“pathos”), that is, (subjectively) a passion (especially concupiscence): - (inordinate) affection, lust. 

4. Evil desire:  kakos  kak-os' 

Evil: Apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically such; whereas G4190 properly refers to effects), that is, (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked. 

Desire: epithumia  ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah

From G1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden): - concupiscence, desire, lust (after). 

5. Covetousness (greed): pleonexia  pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah

From G4123; avarice, that is, (by implication) fraudulency, extortion: - covetous (-ness) practices, greediness. 

Idolatry:  eidōlolatreia  i-do-lol-at-ri'-ah

From G1497 and G2999; image worship (literally or figuratively): - idolatry. 

These are the different forms of idolatry we have to contend with in our lives today.  No different from the time the Apostles lived.  Nothing changes under the sun. 

Steve

Col 3:5 NKJV  Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 

Col 3:5 ISV  So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). 

Ecc 1:9-10 NKJV  That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.  (10)  Is there anything of which it may be said, "See, this is new"? It has already been in ancient times before us.