I don't understand why Catholics worthship statues and idolizing it. It just a doll dress up as Jesus or the Virgin Marry statue made out of porcelain or clay and Catholics think praying Infront of statues is the key threw their salvation. Our salvation is threw Grace and faith believing Jesus die for our sin's.
Of course you don't understand why Catholics worship statues; it's just like how you don't understand why Yazidis worship the devil. We don't. As hard as it might be to believe, getting information about a group from the enemies of that group is not a good way to get reliably accurate information. Would you ask the Nazis for information about Judaism?
See, we actually have FAITH in what Jesus said: that during the Incarnation, He was fully human, as well as fully divine. Consequently, a statue of Him then is no different from a statue of anyone else; He was a man like any other. With that basic realization, the whole argument of Iconoclasm falls apart- from a Christian perspective, anyway.
To put it more succinctly:
It is also, as HE HIMSELF CLEARLY STATED, through HIM that one reaches the Father. Not through grace (as it's only by God's own asinine pride that salvation is even NECESSARY), not through faith (as that precludes those who never got the message). Through HIM.
u We are not worshipping the statues, images, or whatever it may be.
Humans are creatures of sense. We need to see and to hear things. The Gospel of John records, during the Last Supper, Philip asking Jesus to show them the Father, to which Jesus replies "he who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14.9). Later, in his letter to the Colossians, Paul identifies Jesus Christ as "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1.15).
So if that is true, then it is right, it is fitting to have an image of the Image of God. Therefore, as it concerns Christ, we worship He Whom the image represents, calls to our minds (or some other kind of representation, to include statues).
As for Mary (or, for that matter, other Saints)? We worship neither the statues or images, nor the subjects of said images. I will refer you back to the MyTake I wrote about Mary for an explanation of why she is worthy of devotion. A statue or image is simply an aid to devotion.
I don’t know, but I thought you were unsaved and I was glad that this was obvious even to a non-religious person.
It’s just logical and for the believer it even says there is nothing to them.
I have no clue why they (the Catholics) do that either. Probably tradition from the early Catholic Churches? Aka the people who believed women were witches and the earth was flat? Lol
Maybe they believed something about stone clay wood and all that.
The Catholics of today should distinguish themselves, yet they have no problem repeating it, and it probably (at first) baffles the young ones who grow up seeing that, and baffles the outsider/ spectators looking in.
I’d never do it. To each their own, I guess?
They do there's a statue of Mary the feet have been kissed so much that there's ware n tear
she's a human like all only Jesus saves n gives eternal life
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I think the statues are just images of Biblical people. However it does seem many Catholics seem to think that praying in front of statutes pleases God.
I went to a Catholic Church until I was about 24 and discovered there are major reforms needed to their theology.
How I wish they would just reform many of their doctrines. I like the Catholic style of worship with its formality and rigid conservatism, however I cannot and will not return to Catholicism as they are wrong about the doctrine of salvation and numerous other issues to include purgatory, veneration of Mary and claiming she was sinless, praying to saints and several other dogmatic and outright unbiblical and frankly sinful doctrines.
That doesn’t even mention not turning child molesting priests over to the authorities, but instead transferring them and helping them to avoid justice. I know Jesus would not have condoned that.
How I wish they would repent, but since they will not I will have no part in Catholicism.
You are right about what you said.
If you count a Cross and Jesus along with Mary then yes. They use semantics saying they don't worship them just they are commemorative but if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck it's a duck.
Not exactly sacred if you don't worship it but you know they do find these things sacred.
I've come to realize some people are "visual" processors. For them, this is very important in how they relate to... anything, including God. Some are just stuck there because they were raised in Catholic.
So to them... they relate to God via a visual stimulation.
The Isrealites made a golden calf so they could worship and many cultures made such figurines to have something to worship. Christ said He'd "write the law on their hearts"... and that's what He did.
I seem to be more auditory and find visuals overwhelming.
It's ok, let them be. It's a human...
No Catholics do not worship statues. Catholics worship God and God alone. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2110-2114) spells this out very clearly. Sacred art like statues, painting and pictures are used to recall or remember a thing that’s depicted. It’s just like how someone might hold a picture of a beloved one to pray and speak to them even when they are not together. It’s just a way to remember the person.
They don’t worship statues or the saints, they reverence them. There is a difference. There are differences in belief and practice between protestants and catholics, of course.
No Catholic brainwashed people don’t worship statues so you might want to check facts with the head brainwasher wherever stupid myth cult you go.
Hey... they're Catholics, they're a bit confused. LOL
The Catholic Church belongs to the Devil, that's why.
That ish is rooted in paganism mixed in with Christianity and man made doctrine of of pure BS.
u Most religions use icons and symbols as a visual reminder. Looking at a cross and being reminded of the sacrifice of Jesus doesn't mean that we are worshipping the cross. I'm not Catholic but I am catholic.)
He made it pretty clear multiple times that the worship and idolization of idols and statues is not to be done.
There is more value in worshipping the earth, sun, trees, mountains, etc. than worshipping an imaginary magic sky daddy or statues of him and his imaginary minions
Fake Christians, great example. Most people are too ignorant to even have second thoughts about it
We’re praying to the figures the statues represent. I see no harm
Guessing you aren’t catholic?😅
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