Dodgeball is a game. Your game playing is old and boring.
Open the Bible, read.
God is without beginning, without a mother!
Mary a human maiden, was highly favored, and just before she was told she was highly favored, she was told WHY. Luke 1;27.
Odd the Catholics missed Mary’s highly favoritism was her being betrothed to Joseph, of the House of David.
Jesus is Lawfully entitled to sit on King Davids Throne BECAUSE OF Joseph’s lineage!
And Oddly Catholics make statues of a woman they never saw, (nor do such statues look like a woman of the Jewish race,) and bow down to those statues.
Seeing How you trust to believe, Students of the Apostles teaching.......where did God, did Jesus, did the Apostles teach ANYTIME anywhere to build statues of Mary or anyone, and bow down before them?
Only STUPID people think that veneration of wood or plaster is worship. Here's a clue: we venerate who the statue represents, not the statue itself. Your stupid insults are automatic with you.
You objection to bowing (as an act of veneration) is not biblical. You've invented a new man made tradition.
Deut. 5:9 – God’s command, “you shall not bow down to them” means “do not worship them.” But not all bowing is worship. Here God’s command is connected to false worship.
Rev. 3:9 – Jesus said people would bow down before the faithful members of the church of Philadelphia. This bowing before the faithful is not worship, just as kissing a picture of a family member is not worship.
Gen. 19:1 – Lot bowed down to the ground in veneration before two angels in Sodom.
Gen. 24:52 – Abraham’s servant bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
Gen. 42:6 – Joseph’s brothers bow before Joseph with the face to the ground.
Jos. 5:14 – Joshua fell to the ground prostrate in veneration before an angel.
1 Sam. 28:14 – Saul bows down before Samuel with his face to the ground in honor and veneration.
1 Kings 1:23 – the prophet Nathan bows down before King David.
2 Kings 2:15 – the sons of the prophets bow down to Elisha at Jericho.
1 Chron. 21:21 – Ornan the Jebusite did obeisance to king David with his face to the ground.
1 Chron. 29:20 – Israelites bowed down to worship God and give honor to the king.
2 Chron. 29:29-30 – King Hezekiah and the assembly venerate the altar by bowing down in worship before the sin offerings.
Tobit 12:16 – Tobiah and Tobit fell down to the ground in veneration before the angel Raphael.
Judith 14:7 – Achior the Ammonite kneels before Judith venerating her and praising God.
Psalm 138:2 – David bows down before God’s Holy Temple.
Dan. 2:46 – the king fell down on his face paying homage to Daniel and commands that an offering be made to him.
Dan. 8:17 – Daniel fell down prostrate in veneration before the angel Gabriel.
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“Catholics worship statues!”
People still make this ridiculous claim. Because Catholics have statues in their churches, goes the accusation, they are violating God’s commandment: “You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow down to them or serve them” (Ex. 20:4–5).
It is right to warn people against the sin of idolatry when they are committing it. But calling Catholics idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints
is based on misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and uses (both good and bad) of statues.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book
Roman Catholicism, makes the blanket statement, “God has forbidden the use of images in worship” (281). Yet if people were to “search the scriptures” (John 5:39), they would find the opposite is true. God forbade the
worship of statues, but he did not forbid the
religious use of statues. Instead, he actually
commanded their use in religious contexts!
God Said to Make Them
People who oppose religious statuary forget about the many passages where the Lord
commands the making of statues. For example:
“And you shall make two cherubim of gold [i.e., two gold statues of angels]; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be” (Ex. 25:18–20).
David gave Solomon the plan
“for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this he made clear by the writing of the hand of the Lord concerning it all” (1 Chr. 28:18–19). David’s plan for the temple included statues of angels.
Similarly Ezekiel 41:17–18 describes graven (carved) images in the idealized temple he was shown in a vision, for he writes, “On the walls round about in the inner room and [on] the nave were carved likenesses of cherubim.”
The Religious Uses of Images
During a plague of serpents sent to punish the Israelites during the exodus, God told Moses to
“make [a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live” (Num. 21:8–9).
One had to
look at the bronze statue of the serpent to be healed, which shows that statues could be used ritually, not merely as religious decorations.
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school for teaching children. Catholics also use statues to commemorate certain people and events, much as Protestant churches have three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas.
If one measured Protestants by the same rule, then by using these “graven” images, they would be practicing the “idolatry” of which they accuse Catholics.
But there’s no idolatry going on in these situations. God forbids the worship of images as gods, but he doesn’t ban the making of images.
It is when people begin to adore a statue as a god that the Lord becomes angry. Thus, when people
did start to worship the bronze serpent as a snake-god (whom they named “Nehushtan”), the righteous king Hezekiah had it destroyed (2 Kgs. 18:4).
Do Catholics Worship Statues?.
Where in the Bible is Scripture in art form forbidden? NOWHERE.
Where in the Bible is the command for bare white walls in places of worship? NOWHERE.
At the centre of the monument, four 5 metre-tall statues of Calvinism's main proponents are depicted:
But there’s no idolatry going on in these situations.
