tiki, then we can also give anyone who God has blessed the same honor can't we?
So then it is alright to set up statues and repeat prayers to all those who have been blessed, and doubly so if God himself did the blessing, right?
Judges 5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Jehovah. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, Because they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah against the mighty.
Judges 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
And God blessed Noah and his sons,
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son.
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him. And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Lk 11:27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.
V-28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
You know what? I don't really care anymore what you think about Catholics and Catholicism. I can't believe I got sucked in again.
I'll say it again, I have been led ,I believe, by the Holy Spirit, to the Catholic Church. I spent 46 yrs as a Protestant. My mother is a Baptist. My sister is Evangelical, one brother is a Fundamentalist Baptist, one is non-religious but open to belief and the other is an atheist. I've heard every argument in the book.
I didn't join the Catholic Church on a lark, this is the Church and belief God led me to. You believe what you believe for similar reasons, I suppose. Now how do we ever come to agreement? From the very fact that this is the Neverending thread I would say never until the Holy Spirit takes charge.