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To: C19fan

Yeshua is Holy, relics are not.

Yes, I do not believe in the veneration of relics. It encourages pagan-like practices & attitudes about things that are not Holy.


6 posted on 04/12/2019 7:02:49 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Most of them are not even real.
Just left-overs from a time when they were a source of income.
The Shroud of Turin is such a fake.


7 posted on 04/12/2019 7:09:11 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Wuli

So you wouldn’t walk on these pagan steps?


9 posted on 04/12/2019 7:14:09 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Wuli
Yeshua is Holy, relics are not. Yes, I do not believe in the veneration of relics. It encourages pagan-like practices & attitudes about things that are not Holy. Thus did Israel and thus Hezekiah:

he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:3-4)

Then we have Catholics 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 supernatural 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.

Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?

The Catholic manner of "adulation" can indeed constitute worship in Scripture (Words for worship in the NT), yet Catholics imagine that by playing word games then they can avoid crossing the invisible line between mere "veneration" and worship.

And despite the Spirit inspiring the recording of about 200 prayers in the Bible, and of this being a most basic practice, the only prayers or offerings in Scripture to anyone else in Heaven is by pagans, including to the only Queen of Heaven see therein, by souls who were as adamant as many Catholics in defending their practice:
(Jeremiah 44:16-17)

19 posted on 04/13/2019 3:46:51 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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