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To: Thales Miletus; verga; ealgeone
I don't want to hijack the thread so ping me when he makes one of "those" comments again.

Why not join the crowd?

As an agnostic / Metatheist I have to ask. In the dark ages before Skype I would tell my daughters picture that I missed her when I was out of town and would give her and my wife's picture a kiss goodnight, was that worship?

No, and the argument was not kissing a picture of someone is worship, nor that that simply kneeling before something other than God constitutes worship, but that one would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, beseeching such for Heavenly help, and making offerings to them, and giving glory and titles and ascribing attributes to such which are never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods), including having the uniquely Divine power glory to hear and respond to virtually infinite numbers of prayers individually addressed to them

Which manner of adulation would constitute worship in Scripture, yet Catholics imagine that by playing word games then they can avoid crossing the invisible line between mere "veneration" and worship. Or at least what would be blasphemous in Scripture.

In response a RC charged that preaching that one finds God in the Bible, even as finding out about God, constitutes worship as the Bible literally being God, and praying before a Bible or while clutching it in hand means that one is praying to it, and is analogous to what Caths do toward Mary, as described. And the poster insists on maintaining such absurdity despite patiently being shown his error

And now it seems he has invoked you for support. Perhaps if you say you find someone in your school yearbook then this means that the yearbook literally is that person, while speaking with it in hand means you are praying to it in worship of it.

Such is hardly helpful to an agnostic

387 posted on 05/24/2016 5:39:22 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212; ealgeone; Thales Miletus
Why not join the crowd?

The thread is about the rapture, ealgeone did a great job of hijacking it to push his agenda about Mary. It might be nice if everyone tried to stay on topic.

390 posted on 05/24/2016 5:59:24 AM PDT by verga (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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