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Where does God say, “bury the dead?” Did they dig up Lazarus? Did Jesus had to crawl his way out of a burial pit?
Sure, God said not to kneel down (well, bow) to idols, but an idol is an image of a god. If it’s not a god, it’s not an idol. Hence, he instructed the Israelites to bow before the seraph, because the seraph wasn’t a god. Neither are saints. And that’s why Catholics keep track of who is known to be a saint because they want to make sure that the people they ask to join them in supplication to God are in Heaven, not Hell. Not like Saint Brittney Spears, canonized by the Church of England when she was a spokesmodel for virginity, before she turned out to be a skank.
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Lev_26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Lev_26:1 Ye shall makeH6213 you noH3808 idolsH457 nor graven image,H6459 neitherH3808 rear you upH6965 a standing image,H4676 neitherH3808 shall ye set upH5414 any imageH4906 of stoneH68 in your land,H776 to bow downH7812 untoH5921 it: forH3588 IH589 am the LORDH3068 your God.H430
A graven image...
פּסל
pesel
peh'-sel
From H6458; an idol: - carved (graven) image.
Hmmmm...A carved graven image is an idol...
Standing image
מצּבה
matstsêbâh
mats-tsay-baw'
Feminine (causative) participle of H5324; something stationed, that is, a column or (memorial stone); by analogy an idol: - garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
This one's an idol as well...
any image
משׂכּית
maśkı̂yth
mas-keeth'
From the same as H7906; a figure (carved on stone, the wall, or any object); figuratively imagination: - conceit, image (-ry), picture, X wish.
No doubt about it...if you make it with your hands and bow down to it, it's an idol...
As i have said, in Bible times one could not explain kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer!
Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?
As even St. Epiphanius is quoted by Haydoc as saying, while Haydoc violates it, "it is no less criminal to vilify the holy Virgin, than to glorify her above measure."
Considering that the only people who prayed anyone else in Heaven but the Lord are pagans,
and that the only Queen of Heaven in Scripture is that of pagans,
and that the only ones bowing does before idols and making requests are idolators,
and that the only one shows having the power to hear virtually infinite incessant prayers addressed to them in Heaven from earth is the Lord,
and that we are admonished not to think of men above that which is written, (1Cor. 4:6)
and as Scripture does not testify to the plethora of platitudes ascribed to her, of which are those only given to God,
then we must conclude the Mary of Catholicism is not that the holy women of Scripture, and the devotion to her is much of the flesh, and likewise the visions of her, or from the devil, who seeks to bring souls to worship instruments of grace as God, who alone is exalted as Caths do to their Mary.