Catholics can explain please?
I'm not trying to rude at all please do not offend me. (Some of worship) and Catholics pray to images of Mary as their savior too. The 10 commandments say not carved with image worship. And when he bends his knee to pray to the cross with Jesus on it as if that is the image of Christ. I wondered how some would like to justify it or how, apart from these commands. I'm just curious are offended
I am not Catholic, but I am a follower of Christ.
There are plenty of places throughout the Bible, not just the 10 commandments say not to worship idols.
The Catholic Church has very corrupt government. It is my sincere opinion that any person who strictly follows the Catholic tradition will go to hell. They worship and pray to idols (Mary, the numbers of physics).
However, most people who go to a Catholic church does not really understand everything about their religion and therefore can not be so caught up in tradition.
However, the prayer to Mary is something that almost everyone does. No proff anywhere in the Bible to support that even people can pray after spending so I'm not sure why net even pray to Mary - have no idea if she can hear.
If some Catholics worship Mary as their savior is wrong. However, we ask you to pray for us like other Christians ask their friends and family to pray for them. It is not worship, but a petition to be Christ for us. We also go to Christ directly. We just feel that if someone is in heaven with Christ, then they are better able to ask God's help.
And the "bend the knee" thing is called genuflecting and not too the figure of Christ. It is to the tabernacle, which Catholics believe they have the real presence of Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.
That may bring more questions, but I hope that helps.
Catholics do not worship the Holy Mother of God, nor worship images. If you hear someone talking nonsense such are false testimony against the Church of Christ and his followers. Catholics are forbidden to worship anyone or anything but God. You can find this stated in the teaching of the Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Bible wrote (NT) and canonized. You must believe in the Bible and the Catechism of the Church before they believe these anti-Catholic fanatics who spread lies about the Church. This is my blog on the subject and can help you:
I like most Catholics want to laugh when Protestants say that Catholics worship statues. For a Catholic who is pure foolishness and ignorance. The thing is that we Catholics really agree with the protesters condemning idolatry. However, realize what Catholics and Protestants fail to understand, perhaps because of his hatred of everything Catholic, is that God does not prohibit religious images when used properly. An example is as follows:
(Ex. 25:1 DRB) And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
(Ex. 25:18 DRB) shall make two cherubim of beaten gold, on both sides of the oracle.
(Ex. 25:19 DRB) Come on, a cherub, on one hand and the other in the other.
(Ex. 25:20 DRB) to cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look towards each other, their faces turned toward the mercy with which the ark is to be covered.
(Ex. 26:1 DRB) And thou shalt make the tabernacle this way: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and purple and purple and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.
Here God is saying that religious images are welcome.
God speaks to us of how Aaron's garments should be decorated:
(Ex. 28:33 DRB) And beneath the feet of the same tunic, round, do what you are pomegranates, of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:
(Ex. 28:34 DRB) So there will be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.
God tells Moses to make a sculpture of a snake to cure snake bites and as people began to worship the king who destroyed:
(Numbers 21:8 DRB) And the Lord said: Ask a bronze serpent and set it up to a sign: whosoever being beaten look at it, shall live.
(Numbers 21:9 DRB) therefore Moses made a bronze serpent and set it to a signal: that when he was bitten watching were cured.
(2 Kings 18:4 DRB) destroyed the high places and broke the statues in pieces, and cut the forests, and broke the brazen serpent that Moses had done, because until then the children of Israel burned incense to it: Nohestan and called his name.
Notice what God said about the temple:
(1 Kings 6:12 DRB) As for this house, that construction is you, if you NEWS walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfill my word to you, who spoke to David your father.
(1 Kings 6:13 DRB), and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.
(1 Kings 6:14 DRB) So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
Solomon's temple was adorned with sculptures and statues:
(1 Kings 7:25 DRB) And I was sitting on twelve oxen, three of whom looked to the north and three west and three south, three east, and the sea was above them, and their hinder parts were hidden inside.
(1 Kings 7:36 DRB) also recorded on the plates, which were of brass, and in the corners, cherubs and lions, and palm trees, like a man standing, so that did not seem to be recorded, but added around.
Scripture tells us that Solomon's wisdom came from God:
(1 Kings 3:1 DRB) And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, because he took his daughter and brought her to the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
(1 Kings 3:2 DRB), yet the people sacrificed in high places: for there was no temple built in the name of the Lord until that day.
(1 Kings 3:3 DRB) and Solomon loved God, walking in the precepts of David his father, only sacrificed in high places, and burned incense.
(1 Kings 3:4 DRB) was therefore Gibeon to sacrifice there: for that was the high place: a thousand victims of the holocaust, did Solomon offer upon that altar at Gibeon.
(1 Kings 3:5 DRB) And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night, saying: Ask what I shall give thee.
(1 Kings 3:6 DRB) And Solomon said, Thou hast great mercy to thy servant David my father, as he walked before thee in truth and justice, and a right heart with you and you have kept your great mercy him and have given a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
(1 Kings 3:7 DRB) And now, Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father, and I am a child, not knowing how to exit and enter;
(1 Kings 3:8 DRB) And thy servant is in the midst of people you have chosen, a great people, which can not be numbered nor counted for multitude.
(1 Kings 3:9 DRB) Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. To be able to judge these people, your people, which is so large?
(1 Kings 3:10 DRB) and the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing.
(1 Kings 3:11 DRB) And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but hast asked for wisdom to know you jndgment ;
(1 Kings 3:12 DRB): Behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have taken a wise and understanding heart, while there's no one like you before thee, neither after thee shall arise .
(1 Kings 3:13 DRB) Yes, and also the things you do not ask, I have given, namely, riches and glory: so that no one has been like thee among the kings of every day so far.
(1 Kings 3:14 DRB) And if you want to walk in my ways and keep my commandments and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.
(1 Kings 3:15 DRB) and Solomon woke up and saw it was a dream, and when he came to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the LORD and offered burnt offerings and sacrificial victims of peace offerings, and made a big party for all his servants.
(1 Kings 3:16 DRB) Then came two women who were prostitutes, the king, and before him.
(1 Kings 3:17 DRB) and one of them said: I pray thee, my lord, I and this woman lived in a house, and I gave birth to a son with her in the chamber.
(1 Kings 3:18 DRB) And the third day after it was delivered, was also delivered, and we were together, and no other person with us in the house, only two of us.
(1 Kings 3:19 DRB) and this woman's child died in the night: the sleep she overlaid it.
(1 Kings 3:20 DRB) And rising in the dead time of night, she took my son from me, while I, your servant, was asleep, and put it in his bosom, and laid her dead child in my breast.
(1 Kings 3:21 DRB) And when I got up in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead, but considering most diligently, when day was clear, I found that I was not mine had.
(1 Kings 3:22 DRB) And the other woman replied, not how sayst you, but your son is dead, and mine is alive. By contrast, he said, lie: that my son lives, and your son is dead. And so they strove before the king.
(1 Kings 3:23 DRB) And the king said: He who says: My son is alive, and your son is dead. But the other: "No, but your son is dead, and my lives.
(1 Kings 3:24 DRB) The king then said, "Bring me a sword. And when he had brought a sword before the king,
(1 Kings 3:25 DRB) divide, he said, the living child in two and give half to one and a half to the other.
(1 Kings 3:26 DRB) But the woman whose son was alive, "said the king, (for his guts were transferred to his son) I beg you, my lord, give her the living child, not kill him. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor you, but divide it.
(1 Kings 3:27 DRB) The king answered and said: Give the living child to this woman, and do not let them died, because she is the mother thereof.
(1 Kings 3:28 DRB) And all Israel heard the sentence which the king had judged, and they feared the king, as the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
God was not upset by what Solomon had done:
(1 Kings 9:3 DRB) And the Lord said: I heard thy prayer and thy supplication that you have done before me: I have consecrated this house which thou hast built, to put my name forever, and my eyes and heart will be there forever.
The question to those who condemn Catholic practices in terms of images is why the evidence that the images can please God when they ask for our minds to God, you condemn them when it pleases God. After all, Christ Himself is called the image (eikon) of the invisible God:
(Col 1:15 DRB) Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
In Christ
Fr Joseph
We do not pray to the idol itself, but the image it represents. For example, it gives us something solid to focus on our prayers. Therefore, we are not praying to a statue of Jesus, we pray to Jesus and focuses on the statue to avoid being distracted and feel silly talking to air. It also represent artists from the person they believe, give the churches as a lasting tribute to the artist.
Hi,
The image is there to remind you of God or Jesus, much like your family photos at home or office. Apparently, though strict adherence to formalities and regulations of the Bible are doubled for "all" the names I guess. When Christ says that divorce and remarry other has committed adultery, what God has set aside no man can still see Christian ministers to marry people of their times, second, third or fourth. How can we explain the phenomena well?
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
Hello
First, I do not want to sound rude, but forgive me if I sound rude, plzz
what is wrong with you and pictures. Oh, God help me!
ok 1 of alll we honor Mary we DON "T cult of Mary.
and images is just a signal to the celestial beings,
we use it as an image.
and again not worship the image. May God forgive you !!!!!!!
That would be Yahoo Answers if this question was not asked at least once a week. We honor Mary, we adore. We intercede for us, because we feel unworthy to approach Jesus, and He will never say no to his mother. Perhaps there is another language we can use to explain this, because they are getting it in English! There seems to sink into his brain. God, please, understand this!
The Ten Commandments say not to worship any other God.
Mary is the Mother of God and is an important part of the Catholic faith
Commandment 1 No other gods before me
That does not break it. People pray to Mary to form the help of God.
The Ten Commandments [Exodus 2 to 17]
First Commandment () 2 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage. 3 You have no other gods before me. 4 Do not you do what you are for an engraving, or the likeness of what is in heaven above or on earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. 5 You do not worship or serve them, I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 6 and showing mercy unto thousands to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
() 7 Second Commandment not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain that the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Third Commandment () 8 Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify. 9 Six days you shall work say and do all thy works. 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God: you shall do no work therein, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the alien within your gates . 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all things in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.
(12) Fourth Commandment Honor your father and your mother, that thou mayest live long on the land the Lord your God gives you.
(13) Fifth Commandment Thou shalt not murder.
(14) Sixth Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery.
(15) Seventh Commandment Thou shalt not steal.
Eighth Commandment (16) Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor.
House (Ninth and Tenth Commandment) 17 Thou thy neighbor, covet not: nor do the wish of his wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor anything that is his.
Note: The ninth commandment of the Catholic Church is your neighbor's wife You do not covet.
For those who may argue about the ninth commandment "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife." [Matthew 5:32] But I say, who divorces his "wife", with the exception of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery. If you notice in Matthew 5:32, speaking of adultery, and addresses of women as wives and not their property, ie goods ≠ neighbor neighbor's wife.
4 "One thing sculpture or image of anything" … All pictures of this kind, or similar, are prohibited by this commandment, as are made to be adored and served, as follows immediately, do not adore or worship. That is, all they are designed for idols or gods of the image, or are worshiped with divine honor. But apart from the pictures, images or even in the house of God, and the sanctuary far from being forbidden, are expressly authorized by the word of God. See Exodus 25. 15, and etc, chap. 38. 7, Num. 21. 8, 9, 1 Chronicles. or Paralip. 28. 18, 19, 2 Chron. or Paralip. 3. 10.
We as Catholics do not worship the Blessed Virgin Mary, we do however show reverence to it. In order for one to worship an idol, they must know what they are doing. We do not worship the articles that talk about either, as the crucifix, we do however, the worship of Christ our Lord, that is what the crucifix or images of Christ represent.
We may pray the angels, saints and the Blessed Virgin: "Go to my servant Job, and offer a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: your face is going to accept, that insanity is not attributable to you : so you did not speak good things before me, as my servant Job. " (Job 42:8)
A direct quote from San Juan on prayer to the angels: "And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended before God from the angel's hand." Revelation 8, 4). Everyone has a guardian angel "See that ye despise one of these little ones: For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in Heaven." (Matthew 18, 10) although, as Beelzebub showed that if one does not pray to your angel or any other angel of the nine choirs, her hands are the bonds and there is little they can do to help. God created the angels to help and serve us in our time of need, "Behold, I send my angel, who goes before you and keep you on your journey, and bring thee into the place I have prepared. Take note of it, and hear his voice. "(Exodus 23, 20-21) is not only right to use this wonderful privilege that God has given us children? As our Heavenly Father allows us to temp man fallen angels, "Be careful, because the devil is seeking whom he may devour. You must resist him, be strong in faith and knowing that haunts everyone else in the world, too. "(1 Peter 5, 8-9) would not make sense for the angels to protect us when we ask for their intercession?
You must remember that the Catholic Church is almost 2000 years and since the language has changed considerably over these 2000 years, its not a good idea to judge the practices of Catholics on the basis of contemporary standards.
The word "pray" has evolved largely in English. Today almost no one uses this word in order that no one but God (however, this has not always been so. Think of Elizabethan English, where it was common for one to say "Please" to a human ). Technically to "pray" simply means to ask anything, and so when Catholics to "pray" to saints who are only asking the intercession of the saints.
* * The theme of our worship is God and God alone, however, we often ask our friends at the Sky "to pray for us (in the same way we ask our friends on earth to pray for we.
The word "worship" has also undergone a fairly large amount of evolution, and therefore the Church has worship classified in three ways: latria, dulia and hyperdulia.
Latria is the form of worship due to God and God alone. Dulia is the "cult" (respect) because humans. Speaking Technicallys, 'dulia' can be used to represent the relationship that we give to our parents, our elders, kings, presidents, etc. The Catholic Church uses this term to represent the "worship" (respect) to pay the Saints. Hyperdulia is the "cult" (respect) we pay to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as is the "theotikos" (bearer of God) and he deserves more respect than any other human being (but not "latria" which as I stated above is due only to God).
Not supposed to Catholics to pray (in the form of "latria" cult) to anything or anyone but God.
Many people confuse the Catholic practices of worship and holy relic veneration for religion and unfortunately there are some very evil that the same Catholic catechism does not know any better, believing that prayer to the saints (including the BVM) and prayer to God are one and the same (and thus unknowingly are committing idolatry).
The vast majority of Catholics, however, are able to distinguish between them.
because they are brainwashed fools