Frankie Avalon’s idolatry?

[donadams]

Is Frankie Avalon’s Venus idolatry?

[Chorus]
Venus!
Goddess of love that you are
Surely, the things I ask
Can't be too great a task!

Declares her a goddess!
Prayer to her also!

Does anyone remember a stink being made when it first aired?

Idolatry or innocence?
Thanks

 

[Josheb]

Hmmm...

I, personally, am inclined not to make much of the song because scripture tells us there are not other gods but God and the apostle Paul informed us idols are nothing. If I took the suffering singer literally, then I would also have to take him for a fool. I might, alternatively, hear him as a jocular version of Elijah imploring the priests of Baal to cry out, cut themselves, pour on more fuel. "Sure the things you ask cannot be to great a task!" Or, I might just as easily hear the words as rhetorical, indicating that love is beyond humanity, angels, and all the gods of mythology (but not for the God who is love).

Let us not forget there are passages in scripture where the writers appealed to pagan philosophers and their pagan philosophies.

 

[donadams]

Hmmm...

I, personally, am inclined not to make much of the song because scripture tells us there are not other gods but God and the apostle Paul informed us idols are nothing. If I took the suffering singer literally, then I would also have to take him for a fool. I might, alternatively, hear him as a jocular version of Elijah imploring the priests of Baal to cry out, cut themselves, pour on more fuel. "Sure the things you ask cannot be to great a task!" Or, I might just as easily hear the words as rhetorical, indicating that love is beyond humanity, angels, and all the gods of mythology (but not for the God who is love).

Let us not forget there are passages in scripture where the writers appealed to pagan philosophers and their pagan philosophies.

Thanks