To: ealgeone
Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. It’s one of those pesky Commandments — the one forbidding idolatry. Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 - “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them”
To: MayflowerMadam
Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. This is the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding Mary.
There is nothing regarding worship.
And when you find Luther's doctrine of Sola Scriptura in the Bible, let me know. It will be quite a trick, since the canon of Scripture wasn't assembled until centuries after the last book of the Biblia was written. How could a passage in the Bible refer to an as-yet-to-exist book?
3,376 posted on
12/28/2014 11:36:43 AM PST by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: MayflowerMadam
Actually, it's not adoring the Blessed Virgin Mary, it's honoring her. And that's addressed by another Commandment, a column-inch down the page: "Honor thy father and thy mother."
And by Mary's own prophetic declaration: "All generations will call me blessed."
A true prophecy of Christians through the centuries.
3,435 posted on
12/28/2014 3:55:30 PM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
(Faith with love is the faith of Christians. Without love, it is the faith of demons. - Bede the Ven)
To: MayflowerMadam
Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. Its one of those pesky Commandments the one forbidding idolatry. Exodus 20:4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them what an extraordinarily perverse interpretation of that passage!!!
3,507 posted on
12/28/2014 7:42:42 PM PST by
terycarl
(common sense prevails over all)
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