Posted on 03/24/2015 8:06:07 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Let the games begin.
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Praying the rosary began in 1916?
Praying is idolatry?
That was my reaction!
Ah Well. If Papists want to trash Sola Scriptura, then why not add/delete anything and everything into your man-made doctrines and call it “The Church”.
So, using a simple memory device to say certain prayers in a certain order is forbidden in the Bible?
God looks upon the heart, not upon the form of worship.
So what? The word Bible is not in the Bible either.
Nor is the “Prayer Circle” where a bunch of materialistic minded holier-than-thou Christians sit around asking for “things” instead of asking for God's help and mercy with their self-righteousness.
Righteous you are not, sir. Self-righteousness, THAT you ARE in honey bucketfuls.
To be honest, I spend the majority of my prayer time to the almighty asking him for things such as finding a good parking spot, finding my lost car keys, that my favorite sports team wins important games, and on occasion to help me when I get stuck on really hard places on video games.
Read about the Battle of Lepanto...
Any in depth study of the prayers of the Rosary reveals blasphemy.
More like 700 years prior to that. As a good Catholic I will keep my rosary and ignore pagan rantings by people like this.
I am Catholic, and I will concede, it appears no place in the Bible.
And Jesus never carried a Bible.
It actually started much earlier than that..
Rosaries, or strings of prayer beads, originated in India, where yogins and yoginis were using what is still the standard Hindu mala (literally "rose" or "garland") before the 8th century BCE The traditional 108 identical beads of the malas, usually made from the seeds of sacred plants, helped Hindu mystics focus their minds while chanting mantras, the sacred syllables of power central to Indian spiritual and magical practice. Buddhist monks and nuns borrowed the mala early on, possibly during the life of the Buddha himself. Buddhist missionaries spread the mala throughout Asia, and, to this day, it remains a fixture of spiritual practice throughout the Far East.
Buddhism also brought the rosary westward. Buddhist missionaries reached Alexandria in Egypt, the intellectual center of the old Mediterranean world, by the 2nd century BCE, and established monasteries throughout central Asia and the eastern parts of what we now call the Middle East. As the newer religions of Christianity and Islam came into contact with Buddhism, they borrowed the rosary as well, though they changed its design to fit their own number symbolism. The Muslim rosary has ninety-nine beads, representing the ninety-nine names of God, and one larger bead representing the deity himself. The oldest Christian rosary has 150 beads, representing the 150 psalms, and is still used today by Benedictine monks. The most common rosary among Catholics nowadays, the fifty-bead Marian rosary, was created by St. Dominic in the early 13th century CE after experiencing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
No doubt some folks will be along shortly to inform you that the study itself is blasphemy.
“Praying is idolatry?”
No, idolatrous praying is idolatry.
Actually Jesus quoted from 27 books of the OT ... and he never said ONE rosary
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