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To: proud2bRC
You are a stereotypical anti-Catholic bigot, it would appear...

Perhaps you would like an opportunity to explain the enormous disconnect between your man made catechism and the Bible, none of your little friends seems up to the task.

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: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

2132. "The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, 'the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype,' and 'whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it.The honor paid to sacred images is a 'respectful veneration,' not the adoration due to God alone: Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.

Where in the Holy Bible did Jesus or any of the Apostles teach anyone to "venerate" idols, images or whatever term you prefer?

323 posted on 10/21/2001 12:33:59 AM PDT by Unbeliever
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To: Unbeliever
Perhaps you would like an opportunity to explain the enormous disconnect between your man made heretical belief in Sola Scriptura and the Biblical mandate of Scripture AND Tradition...
325 posted on 10/21/2001 5:47:02 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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