[ealgeone]

We honor Mary as the Mother of Jesus, true man and true God. If you kneel before her statue, kiss it, burn incense before it, place a crown of flowers on it and pray before it...

>You're worshiping a false goddess. So...what do you have to say about kissing dry bones?<

catholics try to get around mary worship by saying they don't give her the worship due God. by this statement they acknowledge they worship Mary...just not in the same way they do God. it's a complete play on semantics with catholics.

[JPX2011]

catholics try to get around mary worship by saying they don't give her the worship due God. by this statement they acknowledge they worship Mary...just not in the same way they do God. it's a complete play on semantics with catholics.

So, if the words: honor, venerate, and worship are interchangeable and the protestant has no intellectual compunction about conflating them, why are they to be believed when it comes to their interpretation of the Word? The Holy Spirit surely knows that these terms have different meaning and yet the Protestant does not. Which can only strengthen the idea that protestant exegesis is not of the Divine.

[verga]

catholics (Sic) try to get around mary (sic) worship by saying they don't give her the worship due God. by this statement they acknowledge they worship Mary...just not in the same way they do God. it's a complete play on semantics with catholics (Sic).

You are wrong