"Of course you don’t pray to Mary do you. Of course not. Never! ’t think of it! That would be idolatry after all.”
Good Grief, do you actually understand any English you didn’t learn from your little Adventist Bible Stories book? That’s even more absurd than the foul refuse about using a definition for “adoration” that wasn’t included in English Language dictionaries until not long before WWI when it was included as the last and least common usage. Forget the use and definition of the word for the thousand or so years prior to that, someone declares themself infallible, settles on an incorrect definition, and in their pride thinks others are so stupid or gulliable that they'll accept the glaring error as fact.
NC laws and laws in many, many, other states use the word “prayer” in a number of ways. The absurd, deliberate, and senseless, limitation on the usage of the word imposed by those who enjoy posting drivel about "praying to the saints is evil" proves that such folks do not and never have interpreted Scriptures properly. "Scripture Alone" is at best a bad joke because in reality it's, "Scripture I haven't yet thrown out yet" alone. After throwing out entire books of the Bible, such infallible interpreters then redefine words as they please to play their own games. They cannot possibly interpret Scripture properly because their worship of their own personal intellect walls out the Holy Spirit who would lead them to the Truth were they not soaking in their own pride and love of self.
The word “prayer” is used every day in State and Federal courts and in legal documents. According to posters who play their personal intellect games, anyone availing themselves of any legal recourse that uses the term is toast and going to hell for praying to someone other than God. Proof positive that such game playing prideful haters of the Truth cannot be properly interpreting Scriptures or in any way concerned with helping others to understand Scripture. They are only interested in playing their little games and thanking themselves that they’re not like “those fallen” humans who do not likewise play little self-worship games.
“North Carolina law permits certain offenses to have “judgment continued” essentially for perpetuity, otherwise known as a “Prayer for Judgment,” “Prayer for Judgment Continued,” “PJC” or even incorrectly a “PFJ.” In other words when a prayer for judgment is granted by a North Carolina Judge, the conviction is not “entered” against the criminal defendant on the underlying charge. So, it is not technically a conviction although in some instances it may be used as an aggravating factor when evaluating future convictions.” There are plenty of other examples, this is just the one I keep on my computer for when I have to send it to teenage dolts who are in trouble and trying to understand their alternatives.
You know, kids who don’t really understand much English because they’ve substituted their own jargon, slang, and redefinitions to try and be hip and kewl in front of their little giggling pals. Usually when dealing with punks like that I have to explain the big words like, “underlying” or “conviction” and how the real meaning of the word differs from their misunderstanding of that same word. Prayer, for some reason, they all understand and never think it is only limited to praying to God or pretend they can’t avail themselves of a particular course of action because in doing so they would be going against the Word of God. They would think about that, too, because a great many of them are very, very, familiar with the Bible because their parents can quote a dozen Bible verses at the drop of a hat.
Scripture isn’t what the anti-Catholic crowd here rely on, it’s their own intellect or they couldn’t keep sticking both their feet in their mouths at the same time over simple English definitions like “prayer” and “adoration”. They pick whichever definition they like and misapply that definition as if it were proof of something other than their own self-centered game playing and their own lack of knowledge or deliberate abuse of simple language.
May God have mercy on those who pretend their own intellect is the Word of God rather than surrendering, taking up their cross, and following Christ.
It’s kind of a corollary of: When you believe in nothing, you’ll believe anything.
Some outside the Church have lost the worship of the Church. The clear distinction that ‘this is our worship of God.” is gone. They have lectures instead of Mass.
So everything tends to become worship. Bowing, intercessory prayer, kneeling.. because they have lost true worship.
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.” (Heb. 10:19,20)