Cronos responded to a previous point.
First the point:
“EVERY BIBLICAL EXAMPLE of any devotion directed to any object or personage but God, is fiercely proscribed,”
Then Cronos’ response:
“Yup, like to the Ark or the Temple. And woe betide anyone who kneels before a Bible to pray or read.”
You make a very valid point here, one well supported, at least in the case of the Ark and Temple, in the Biblical record. But there is a fine line to be trod here, as Jeremiah pointed out: “Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple, of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.” (Jeremiah 7:4) Was Jeremiah saying the temple was not the house of the LORD? Hardly! Indeed, look what he was told to do in the verses immediately preceding these: “The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ‘Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, “Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD!”’ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place ... ‘”
Many Catholics tend to err on the one side and many Protestants on the other. But there is something very important here that bears close examination and not merely virtual (LIKE THIS) shouting at each other, close observation of the language and usage of the Scriptures.
Thank you for posting your observation.
I’m pointing out one thing — Baptists do not worship the Bible as a book, neither do Catholics worship statues. We both hold what is in the Bible as holy
The FOCUS vis a vis the Ark
was NOT to be on the box and the gold nor even the Cherubim.
The FOCUS WAS ON THE MANIFEST PRESENCE OF THE GLORY OF THE LIVING GOD VIBRANTLY 'RESTING' THERE--ON THE SHIKINAH GLORY OF THE ONE AND ONLY LIVING GOD.
Which word is so difficult in:
HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME?