Featured Tell me this is not worshipping Mary

Ann, I can't see it. But I'm using an ad-blocker and I'm not on Facebook.

 

I could see it. Very troubling.
Of course, it's not even Mary they're worshipping; it's an statue of a woman with a crown on her head that they make believe is Mary.
'The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
They have mouths but they do not speak;
Eyes they have but they do not hear;
They have ears but they do not hear;
Nor is there any breath in their mouths.
Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them' (Psalm 135:15-18).

 

I'm Catholic. We don't worship Mary.

You call that worship? Nothing near Catholic worship.


This is Catholic worship and in each one of them is Jesus Christ, so you have good grounds to say we worship everyone:










PS, we don't want or expect salvation for this, we do it for free.

 

First of all, do you know the Fatima story? Do you discount the eyewitness testimony of over 30,000 people including unbiased newspaper reporters and photographers who said the sun "rotated like a wheel and changed colors"?

So no, for the hundredth thousand time Catholics and our Eastern Orthodox brethren do not worship Mother Mary, only God in the form of Jesus Christ!

 

There are statues of famous Americans in Washington, D.C. and we don't worship them either.

 

Yes many many Catholics worship Mary. The op is a clear example.

 

Like you said, You don't know worship is. Worship is kindness love and compassion.

What do you give God when you worship?

Anything about your "WORSHIP" that is not Love is trash.

 

You have no idea what you are talking about.

 

What I think you guys need to have look at is the word "worship". Cause I can point to the cross and say that is perfect worship. Love of Neighbor and Love God is right there and one.

You have a better example, show it to me.

 

The problem is you take the ideas Love of neighbor and God and try to wrap the whole of worship up in that. What you have done is taken ways in which it is expressed and made that the definition. Sorry, expression and definition are not the same thing. You try hard to defend your church but your attempts are less than sophomoric. You do not really understand what worship is.

Answer me this, how does someone worship a false idol? How do false religions engage in worship of their false God?

 

You do it for free? Looks like alms before men, you even have a picture to prove it.

 

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Now I am going to provide you scripture showing love of God. The connection with love of neighbor.


ANY WORSHIP that is not LOVE is TRASH <--- this challenged has you whipped?

"Answer me this, how does someone worship a false idol? How do false religions engage in worship of their false God?"

The very moment you commit a sin of any kind it is idolatry. You found something more important then God. Every sin breaks the first. That's why we can condense it all into one command.

The very last time you sinned it was worship of a false idol. His name could have been greed, vanity, fear.



Galatians 5

14For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”

John 14
15“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.


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When Jesus Christ gave an example of Agape, love of neighbor and love of God. He chose very hated Samaritans who desecrated God's temple.

Luke 10

25And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?” 27And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” 28And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.” 29But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead. 31“And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32“Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33“But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, 34and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35“On the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’ 36“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?” 37And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”


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"You do it for free? Looks like alms before men, you even have a picture to prove it."
We already got our reward.........
what's the penalty or that one? I'll take it.

I rather be a hypocrite doing some thing right then a critic who does no thing right.

God knows our hearts right?

Matthew 5
14“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

 

Sadly, there is nothing worse than some one who is sincere about their false worship. It's difficult to pull that person out of that false religion because they are genuinely motivated to doing what they think is right. "There is a way that seems right to man, but the end is the way of death..."