BTW, the fact that Catholics are idolaters, that those who celebrate Easter and Christmas are pagans and church day being Sunday or ANY day and not EVERY DAY is not an odd view.Wow, another one. That Trailer Park Church grows!
Posted on 01/15/2012 2:36:04 PM PST by narses
Ok, so if they are there in the presenced of God isn't kind of rude to ignore God and ask a favor of a lesser being?
So what!
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2 Cor. was written about 60 AD, so I would say that Catholics were around at least by that point.
“Because he uses scripture and Catholic teaching ...”
Nope. Sorry.
The odd views of a poster who claims that Catholics are idolaters, that those who celebrate Easter and Christmas are pagans and that claims that the idea of church on Sunday is a man made tradition and apparently not either Christian or Biblical. Given that this is the point of view from which you view the world, why should anyone pay attention to your odd, often incomplete and often misread cut-n-pastes?
Check out what scripture says about those who say they are Jews and are not.
BTW, the fact that Catholics are idolaters, that those who celebrate Easter and Christmas are pagans and church day being Sunday or ANY day and not EVERY DAY is not an odd view. I know you won't believe this, but there are very many people who believe those same things. We are called "non-Catholics".
Don’t need to.
We are called “non-Catholics”.
>>Correction. Heretics.
BTW, the fact that Catholics are idolaters, that those who celebrate Easter and Christmas are pagans and church day being Sunday or ANY day and not EVERY DAY is not an odd view.Wow, another one. That Trailer Park Church grows!
“All Christians believe in the Catholic Church. Not all believe that the Roman Catholic Church is the totality of the Catholic Church.”
This is the center of the argument, the term catholic represented the whole early church, but even then there was much disagreement on the meaning and interpretation of early Christian leaders.
The Catholic church we think of now, slowly evolved and represents the western (Latin) influence of Christian thought and structure.
The Eastern Orthodox church, represents the other branch of the early Christian movement, which would remain until the Protestant Reformation.
Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Catholics do kiss their trinkets don’t they?
Zing. LoL
I wonder how many will think of us when next they kiss their rosary or their statue?
Well, it is easy to see where he would get those ideas.
Christmas and Easter are both celebrated during the same time as pagan celebrations, whom the Christians were trying to convert.
Jews celebrate the Sabbath from Friday to Saturday, and I doubt Jesus celebrated on a different day.
And prayers to Saints and Mary could be seen as idolatry.
Yeah...as soon as the apostles all died out....men came along and corrupted the Church...just like Jesus said they would.
You sure can trust The Word of God.
So are you trying to unite everyone into the body Christ by saying that everyone who doesnt follow your bureaucracy is trailer trash? You should try reading Colossians 3.
I don’t know why I’m jumping in here on an otherwise beautiful Sunday evening, because it’s hopeless, but here goes:
If I kiss a picture of my mother, am I worshipping her?
“Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.”
I’m not Catholic, but this is a stretch. To criticize a belief, based upon the creating of statues and “trinkets”, is to view the practice in a very narrow light.
The use of statues is a form of reverent respect and acknowledgement of something or someone greater then themselves. Its not worship of that object, but what it represents, as is the cross. Which denomination does not respect that image?
Depends. Does she represent God or a way to God to you?
Add to those that the “mother of god” concept was decided in the city that had the temple to Diana “queen of heave” and Christians were having problems with merchants who sold the trinkets used to worship her. All coincidences of course.
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