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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: yarddog

“Baptists do not worship images of Jesus or Mary.”

Catholics do not worship images of Jesus or Mary.


81 posted on 05/30/2018 8:03:37 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: TaxPayer2000

He looks alive so, can’t be to graven...


82 posted on 05/30/2018 8:04:36 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: wardaddy

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83 posted on 05/30/2018 8:05:49 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Admiral Michael S. Rogers)
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To: narses
He's not saying you can't make artwork. Worshiping a statue or a picture of a so called god is different. If I was going to worship Washington, I would worship Benjamin too.

Look at it this way, no one knows what God or Jesus looks like. So you make a statue of something that sort of resembles a man. Then you stand it up in church and call it God. That's just stupid. No one is saying George is a god. I don't know how you can get clearer than "Don't make a graven image."

Jews have artwork, but at the same time they don't even dare to put the "o" in G-d out of reverence.

84 posted on 05/30/2018 8:06:02 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: Jolla

“Sometimes, leaving earth to go live on another planet sounds like a pretty good idea.”

I’m with you.

L


85 posted on 05/30/2018 8:08:19 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Good call and I’m Baptist....I think.....

Naw, I complain too much, I love Chinese food buffets and go to the movies on Christmas Day.


86 posted on 05/30/2018 8:08:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Romulus; Mr Rogers

Probably because it wasn’t a Jehovah’s Witness protection program?


87 posted on 05/30/2018 8:11:43 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: chuckles

“It’s idolatry no matter who or what it is...”


88 posted on 05/30/2018 8:11:51 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: taxcontrol

In Jesus name, I pray you are right...


89 posted on 05/30/2018 8:13:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Thank you. I think your thoughts are very sensible.

One correction, though, if I may. You wrote, "In Catholic theology, they "sacrifice" Jesus on the cross every week as part of their liturgy."

This is not so. Jesus, the "Lamb of God", was sacrificed once, only once, in a particular time and place, on Calvary Hill outside Jerusalem, in the 3rd decade of the Christian era, historical, and not repeated.

In another sense, since Jesus is God, His actions are eternal and timeless. Hence, even at His baptism at the Jordan, John said of Him, "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." This word is in the present tense, and signifies a continuous act, for the Lamb rightfully has this power both now and forever to take away the sins of the world.

Even more strikingly, Revelation calls Jesus "The Lamb that was sacrificed before the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8)

Before. The foundation. Of the world.

It's in this "timeless" sense that the Liturgy is a sacrifice--- Christ is not "re-sacrificed," but the One Sacrifice of Christ is made present -- and not only "every week" but every hour of every day, everywhere in the world. This very thing --- the Pure Offering--- was prophesied long ago (Malachi 1:11)

From the rising of the sun
even unto the going down of the same
my Name shall be great among the Gentiles;
and in every place
incense shall be offered unto my Name,
and a pure offering:
for my Name shall be great among the Gentiles,
saith the Lord of hosts.

"A" pure offering. One pure offering. Jesus, once and for all. And forever.

90 posted on 05/30/2018 8:22:32 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: aMorePerfectUnion
Catholics "certainly" "idolize" statues?

I have been a practicing Catholic for 66 years, and I have never "idolized" a statue.

You ought not to say such things, because it gives a false impression, and it's moral defamation. Although I realize you do not mean it that way. You know Christians adore God alone.

91 posted on 05/30/2018 8:26:06 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: Vendome

Do you kneel before the idol of Mary in your church or home? Pray to her? Wear a scapular or miraculous medal?


92 posted on 05/30/2018 8:26:28 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Mrs. Don-o; aMorePerfectUnion
Do you kneel before and pray before the statues of Mary in your church and or home? Wear a scapular?

You say Christians adore God alone....do Romam Catholics not adore Mary?

93 posted on 05/30/2018 8:29:07 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: marshmallow

Except “Catholic” statues of Jesus have him still hanging on the cross.


94 posted on 05/30/2018 8:35:03 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Ransomed
You've got a point there.

It is not Michelangelo-level sculpture, that's for sure. I wouldn't be grieved if they sold it at their annual Baptist Rummage Sale and make money for their Youth Group. That would be good, and the sculptor --- who might have made this with a very devoted heart --- would have his feelings spared.

95 posted on 05/30/2018 8:37:12 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: Governor Dinwiddie; yarddog

Yep.


96 posted on 05/30/2018 8:38:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: aposiopetic

I wonder why they didn’t say Lexington is a suburb of Columbia.


97 posted on 05/30/2018 8:41:13 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Thou shall not make unto Me any graven image.”

If you believe that Christ the Redeemer is the true son of God, a part of God, then you don’t make a statue of Him. It can be construed as idolatry.


98 posted on 05/30/2018 8:41:49 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: ealgeone

Roman Catholics do not adore Mary.


99 posted on 05/30/2018 8:41:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I think we all agree on that.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

**In Catholic theology, they “sacrifice” Jesus on the cross every week as part of their liturgy. The emphasis is on Jesus’s death on the cross.**

This is an untrue statement.


100 posted on 05/30/2018 8:42:02 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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