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To: Campion
It matters what the statue represents, which is why the Ark of the Covenant was to be surmounted by golden cherubim, not golden Canaanite fertility demons.

And no one prayed to the Ark of the Covenant either unlike Roman Catholics and their idols they claim to be Mary.

27 posted on 10/22/2019 2:41:20 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
And no one prayed to the Ark of the Covenant either unlike Roman Catholics and their idols they claim to be Mary.

.............

Speaking of prayer and Mary...

39 posted on 10/22/2019 3:02:05 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: ealgeone
And no one prayed to the Ark of the Covenant either

In the very next post, you say:

IF one bows before, pray to the image, relies upon the image, etc...it's an idol.

You need to acquaint yourself a little better with what the Ark of the Covenant was and how it was treated. It was considered to be the holiest object on earth, and the room in which it was kept was so holy that only one man could enter it, and that only one day a year. When he did, he burnt incense and prostrated himself before it according to a very specific ritual from which he was not permitted to depart at all. The Jews considered that the very presence of God on earth, the "shekinah" or "glory cloud," rested on top of it. By your wackadoodle definition, that makes it an idol times about 20.

unlike Roman Catholics and their idols they claim to be Mary.

That sounds a lot like calumny to me. I know a lot of Catholics, and I don't know any who pray to images or think that an image of Mary is really Mary.

45 posted on 10/22/2019 4:08:15 PM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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