***If you bow to her, if you pray to her, if you trust her for salvation (and some of you do) you are worshipping her. Not even angels allowed John to bow to them. And angels are higher than Mary.***
I don’t kmow of anyone that does.
But, if I am of the Elect, then what does it matter? I can worship the nearest rose bush, waterfall, frogs in the swamp, or moss on a tree, and it doesn’t even slow my Reformed passage to Heaven down at all, right?
***But, if I am of the Elect, then what does it matter? I can worship the nearest rose bush, waterfall, frogs in the swamp, or moss on a tree, and it doesn’t even slow my Reformed passage to Heaven down at all, right?***
You still don’t get it, do you. Because the Holy Spirit is in me, I have no desire to do those things. I live to obey God, not worship other things like saints, Mary, the church, icons, etc.
It’s funny, ya know. Here you are trying to tell me I can worship trees and stuff, and Catholics bow to all sorts of idols.
Correct, but then again getting to heaven isn't the object of our hope. Our hope resides in continuing to remain in fellowship with Him, performing as He wills for us.
If we slip out of fellowship, we just leave some rewards which had been created for us in eternity past, on the shelf, so to speak, as an eternal memorial of our foolishness for not remaining in fellowship with Him. We don't get ahead, instead we make a foolish spectacle of ourselves by failing to be in the right place at the right time to perform His Will.