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Baptist Congregation Votes Jesus Statue Out for Being 'Too Catholic'
Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/30/18 | Mary Rezac

Posted on 05/30/2018 4:56:29 PM PDT by marshmallow

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To: Mrs. Don-o
What you will not see in the depiction of the Nativity scenes are people praying to the images or assigning false abilities to the images, or prayers to the Nativity scene as we see in Roman Catholicism and their idols of Mary.
61 posted on 05/30/2018 7:32:43 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Mrs. Don-o

After 11 years my theory is that they are too embarrassed to admit it is kind of grotesque and crude looking so they are using this Catholic excuse. The funniest and saddest thing is that it probably winds up being inflicted on some Catholic church, right?

Freegards


62 posted on 05/30/2018 7:33:06 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: marshmallow
Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington, about 120 miles northeast of Charleston

Nonsense.

Lexington is NW of Charleston.

150 mi NE of Charleston is around Bald Head Island NC.

63 posted on 05/30/2018 7:35:08 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Considering that the OT is full of instances of graven images and statues commanded by God Himself, I think it’s rather obvious that the prohibition on graven images is related to worship and not simply a ban on pictures and statues.

And in those passages, usually the cherubum and seraphim are the primary ones referenced, no one is bowing before them or praying to them or relying upon them for salvation as seen in Roman Catholicism and their idols of Mary.

Even the bronze serpent was destroyed because the people began to worship the thing (2 Kings 18:4).

64 posted on 05/30/2018 7:37:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: jocon307
For sure, every coin is a graven image.

Is coinage banned? (I'm being silly.)

But --- hmm, "graven" --- is there a difference whether a statue is literally carved in stone or wood, shaped and molded from clay or wax or some other soft modeling material, bronze-cast, porcelain-cast, plaster-cast? What if it's welded?

For that matter, what if it's made of pixels?

Interestingly, I don't know of any Christian group that objects to statuary in cemeteries.

But I could be wrong. What do I know?

The important thing is that "things" are not God or "gods" to us, and that in all things, may God be glorified. .

65 posted on 05/30/2018 7:38:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (In Donegal, I still have 700,000 who have not bent the knee to Baal.)
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To: ealgeone

And how many baptists did that before the offending statue? What a fraud.


66 posted on 05/30/2018 7:42:21 PM PDT by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: chuckles

“This is why Scripture says do NOT make any graven image.”

Like that of ol’ Geo. Washington on the dollar?


67 posted on 05/30/2018 7:43:30 PM PDT by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: narses
And how many baptists did that before the offending statue? What a fraud.

I have no idea.

However, I do know Roman Catholics do exactly the things I posted...and more.

68 posted on 05/30/2018 7:48:18 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: taxcontrol

Serious question -— perhaps I misunderstood you -— you don’t pray to Jesus?


69 posted on 05/30/2018 7:50:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (In Donegal, I still have 700,000 who have not bent the knee to Baal.)
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To: GreyFriar

They could have his head resting on a platter...


70 posted on 05/30/2018 7:54:22 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Jolla

You’re a Mormon?


71 posted on 05/30/2018 7:54:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: circlecity
I see.. The same as Islamics who oppose any images of Mohammed. Got it.
72 posted on 05/30/2018 7:55:55 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mr Rogers

The church had the statue for 11 years. It wasn’t the statue’s presence. It was that it looked to Catholic.


73 posted on 05/30/2018 7:56:49 PM PDT by healy61
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To: cherry
..."this is the perfect example of the hatred and bias that non Catholics show to Catholics and it happens frequently here on FR"....

It's NOT hatred! It's love! Read your Bible, it's in there. Don't make graven images of God. It's Christianity 101. Stop worshiping Mary. Stop worshiping the Apostles and other men. Worship only God. This is basic to God's word and Catholics insist they worship God as they pray "Hail Mary's 20 times.

It seem so basic and simple to us, but RCC's don't seem to get it. Pagans worship idols. Christians worship only God. If you have a statue on the dash of your car or in your front yard, or in your back yard garden, or if you have ever stopped on the side of the road in Chile, or if you go to church and there is artwork of all stripes on the walls, then you are worshiping idols. If you go against God's direct commandment, you DO NOT love God. Jesus said, "If you love Me, DO my commandments. He also said, "My sheep hear My voice". God's Word is His voice.

There is some sort of deafness I have seen on RCC's my whole life where they refuse to see or hear what God has told them. We DO NOT hate you, but when we quote clearly what God's Word says, you say we are attacking you or the church. The people in Waco were called a cult because they followed a man. Could you not admit that the same could be said of the RCC and the pope? Your teachings are far from the teaching of the Bible and Jesus, yet you believe you are doing the right thing because someone tells you it's right. That is religion, not a relationship with God.

There are at least 50 verses that can be found in 20 minutes that contradict everyday practices in the RCC. God even mentions what will happen to you in Revelation and it ain't pretty. Many if not most of your practices come from pagans in Rome at the time, ergo, "The Roman Catholic Church". The churches started by the Apostles of Jesus were in Jewish Synagogues until Constantine started the RCC in Rome. Pagans had carved idols. That is where statues in church came from. A pagan needed something to bow down to as they were used to doing in pagan temples. Dump the statues of unknown figures and quit worshiping them.

74 posted on 05/30/2018 7:56:56 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: lurk
Why would anyone have ANY statue?

Because we respond to beautiful things, solemn things, meaningful things, I suppose. We are incarnate beings.

I personally don't care much for Hummel figurines or religious "kitsch" in general. But to some people, they are meaningful, and I respect that. Really, I do. I don't mock them.


75 posted on 05/30/2018 7:57:32 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (In Donegal, I still have 700,000 who have not bent the knee to Baal.)
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To: taxcontrol

I pray to Jesus all the time...don’t understand why you would suggest Christians don’t do this. Have
NEVER heard that one.


76 posted on 05/30/2018 7:58:16 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Mr Rogers

Plus one


77 posted on 05/30/2018 7:59:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: GreyFriar

You don’t have to be personal friar

Baptists don’t do graven imagery well

Nothing new there


78 posted on 05/30/2018 8:00:40 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: sparklite2; GreyFriar

Well, here you go:

a carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

We, as Baptists(me) or Catholics (not me) do not worship the carvings, engravings or statuary.

They are symbols or reminders of our faith and that is all.

The same with statuary , carvings , paintings, etc.

They are reminders of passages of the bible.


79 posted on 05/30/2018 8:01:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Mr Rogers

Pfft!!!! LOL!!!


80 posted on 05/30/2018 8:02:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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