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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Gamecock

IIRC, there’s something in the Ten Commandments about not making graven images and bowing down to them......


23 posted on 02/22/2016 12:18:49 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

If you look closely you can see the Nazar (evil eye) attached to “Mary.”


24 posted on 02/22/2016 12:23:34 PM PST by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: metmom

In the Hebrew, it says “idols,” not “graven images”. An idol is an image of a false god. Mary is not a goddess, whether false or any other kind, so the verse you’re thinking of simply doesn’t apply.


34 posted on 02/22/2016 8:03:40 PM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: metmom
IRC, there’s something in the Ten Commandments about not making graven images and bowing down to them......

Catholic do now bow down to plaster atatues and you know it. While they may pray to the person represented by the statue, they only use the statue as decoration and to remind them of whoever it is....Early Christianity was taught with statues, stained glass windows, pictures etc. because the people were illiterate for the most part.....worked just fine.

58 posted on 02/23/2016 3:17:24 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!)
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