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God is the only one who establishes sets of rules.

Catholics clearly violate the second Commandment.

Exodus 20:4-6 “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.

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, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Catholics do this.....

And there are plenty more pictures of people kneeling and praying to images of Mary without having their heads bowed.

But knowing the neighborhood and the nit-picky attitude some people have, I didn't post those because those people weren't technically bowing.

But if it looks like worship and it sounds like worship, then any Catholics is going to have a tough time maintaining their credibility when they claim that Catholics don't worship Mary when the actions of people indicate they do.

All an individual can claim is that they themselves don't worship Mary as they don't know what's in the heart of those others engaging in actions of worship.

Just like we get chastised that we can't know what's in others hearts when we saw Catholics worship Mary, then no Catholics can say they aren't cause they don't know what's in other's hearts either.

That sword cuts both ways.

Just recently (somewhere) another statue of Mary which was bleeding actual blood from its eyes was discovered and Catholics by the thousands traveled to the location to 'venerate' the miraculous statue...

While Catholics are taught there is no Pre-Tribulation Rapture they understand they will go through the Tribulation...

They will then have the opportunity to witness the greatest statue transformation of all...

Rev. 13:11
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.
13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people.
14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Every Catholic in the Tribulation will worship that speaking statue or be killed...They are certainly being pre-conditioned for that event...