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To: unlearner

Catholics make offerings to images? Since when? Where? How does that work? What do they offer? How do the images feel about it?


15 posted on 11/05/2013 9:53:59 AM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus

“Catholics make offerings to images? Since when? Where? How does that work? What do they offer?”

Jeremiah 44:17
“But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.”

What was the first act of the new Pope but to bow to and pray toward an image of Mary’s supposed likeness while offering flowers and incense at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, which is “dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God”?

https://insidethevatican.com/back-issues/april-2013/pope-francis-first-day

“How do the images feel about it?”

Images don’t have feelings. You should be more worried about how the true and living God feels about your offering incense to the “Queen of Heaven”:

Jeremiah 44:4
“I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!’”


19 posted on 11/05/2013 2:14:28 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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