[PeevedPatriot]

Campion can answer you better than I can. In the meantime, I submit to you that in Ex 25:18 God commands that "two cherubim of gold" be fashioned. A few verses later he says he will meet Moses between those two images and speak further with him. In Ex 21:33-34 God commands that images and adornments be placed on priestly vestments. In Num 21:8 God commands Moses to make an image of a serpent. That serpent is later broken, but only after it was used as an idol (2 Kg 18:4). In the 6th chapter of 1st Kings we find Solomon's temple filled with carvings and graven images yet a few chapters later (9:3) we read that God has consecrated this temple and promises "my heart will be there for all time." Would he consecrate a temple of idols?

[delchiante]

You don’t worship the serpent.. no one prays to the serpent or cherubims.. Mary is worshipped.. she has special days- maybe even special Mariology classes... Mary if I am not mistaken is sinless in RCC. The coronation in Revelation is about Israel unless Mary is queen of Israel (maybe because we know she is called the queen of heaven).. only Enoch and Elijah that I remember are up in heaven without dying. The bible doesn’t discuss her death not because she didn’t die but because she isn’t important to our salvation. Certainly a miracle like Enoch or Elijah would have been recorded. The bible teaches us Jesus and the Holy Spirit make mediation and intercession for us. Thats 2/3 of the Trinity mediating to the Father for us.. That is in the bible.. Not making it up.. Why go to those nonomnicient dead people when you have Christ and the Holy Spirit living in you to mediate?