Well then by logical extension, any time I have seen a protestant kneeling in prayer holding their Bible we can safely conclude that they are worshipping the Bible. Going strictly by appearances and the rules you have established, it is the only logical conclusion.
Well then by logical extension, any time I have seen a protestant kneeling in prayer holding their Bible we can safely conclude that they are worshipping the Bible. Going strictly by appearances and the rules you have established, it is the only logical conclusion.
If you see any one offering prayers to the Bible as catholics do as noted at this website http://www.marypages.com/PrayerstoMary.htm or making images of the Bible and bowing down to it as catholics do Mary then you may have an argument.
Instead, your argument sounds like a third grader doing something they shouldn't who has been caught by the teacher and when asked for an explanation they cry out I'm not the only one doing it!
Daniel1212's post must have really hit home.
Those pigeons must still be having a field day on the chess board.
Wrong, and plainly so as not analogous, for the charge never was that simply kneeling before something other than God constitutes worship, but that doing so together with adulation with supplication that is never given to any created being, and ascribing to such attributes and glory such as are only ascribed to God would constitute worship in Scripture. Or at least blasphemy.
Yet the closest thing to what Catholics give to Mary is the praise and devotion that is given to the wholly inspired word of God, and abundantly so, which Caths can only wish was given to Mary in Scripture, while the praise of which by Catholics pales in comparison to the adulation and devotion given directly to Mary.