What is Idolatry?

D.A. Carson | Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Updated May 25, 2011

The Bible has much to say about idolatry, but is that something that still happens today? At its heart, idolatry is really just making God less than He is.

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