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To: FormerLib

Lev 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

My brothers have the Spirit , they know not to bow down to idols.

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.


664 posted on 11/29/2011 7:00:11 AM PST by Lera
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To: Lera
Lev 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 20:4-6 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

What Catholics as a whole seem to miss is that these verses don't say not to worship them although that is what is implied, but we are not to bow down to images.

The first thing Catholics do is deny that they worship the images, but if you watch, in any Catholic church, you DO see people bowing down before them, like when they're lighting candles to them representing the prayers they are praying to them.

667 posted on 11/29/2011 8:50:14 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Lera

Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”


671 posted on 11/29/2011 11:35:40 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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