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To: Campion
But I think it's strange that you would think a newspaper ad that says "thank you" somehow tends toward idolatry.

Last time I checked my Bible, "glorify" applied solely to God as the recipient (except for a few cases where it is used as God's prerogative--where HE could glorify someone).

Those newspapers ads glorify some saint, converting those unwilling dead saints into glory thieves.

Twice in the Book of Isaiah, God emphasizes that he shares his glory w/no one.

Paul, the subject of this thread, several times wrote that we should "glorify God in all we do." [And the saints don't qualify as sub-headings of divinity]

157 posted on 12/06/2006 9:27:38 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
Last time I checked my Bible, "glorify" applied solely to God as the recipient

Actually, the Hebrew word translated "honor" in "honor thy father and thy mother" translates directly to "glorify," so your premise is flatly wrong.

Those newspapers ads glorify some saint, converting those unwilling dead saints into glory thieves

That's that "finite pie" theory you claim FourtySeven embraces, when it's really you who embraces it. If a newspaper ad thanking a saint is stealing glory from God, then a newspaper ad thanking a living person is also stealing glory from God.

161 posted on 12/06/2006 9:30:52 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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