Posted on 05/03/2018 3:32:33 PM PDT by NRx
Even more, churches were displaying these relics - for a fee, an indulgence - that if paid and viewed, would get you or a loved one out of purgatory faster.
So I guess you don't believe in the miracle of the fish and loaves either?
Father Guido Sarducci once had a chance to buy the skull of Saint James but turned it down because of a chip in the part usually connected to the neck.
Both examples at that first link had nothing to do with someone taking remains away from the person’s burial site for the purpose of veneration. I’ve never read anything in the Scripture that tells us to do deal in relics. It was not the hem of Jesus’ garment that healed the woman, it was her faith and Jesus’ mercy.
That’s a lot of conjecture in the article.
I would ask you to re-read the first link article. You missed some of the message.
No where in the NT are we ever told to keep and collect these things. Doing so shows a lack of faith in Christ on the part of the Roman Catholic.
No where in the NT are we ever told to keep and collect these things. Doing so shows a lack of faith in Christ on the part of the Roman Catholic.
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Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
I John 5:21, Apostle John, the Apostle loved by Christ
You are correct.
When i am having a bad day I turn on CNN for the comic relief. I just start laughing, I can’t help myself, they the most idiotic people in the whole world, better than a clown show. I always feel better after watching them for about 5 minutes, no matter who is on. And they take themselves so seriously, OMG it’s hilarious!
Pretty clear isn’t it?
Nowhere in Scripture are the remains of the dead collected, prayed to, fondled, kissed, etc.
It is not taught.
It is not commanded.
No Apostle is recorded as doing such a thing.
It is not seen before 100 AD
It is not an Apostolic practice, but a pagan one.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
I John 5:21
Is this for real????
“There have probably been enough pieces of the true cross to build a full size replica of Noahs Ark.”
Perhaps fake “true cross relics” are not nearly as ubiquitous as some might cynically assume.
Is this for real????
Clement was an Orthodox Bishop of Rome (we once had them, as you well know) and an Orthodox Martyr:
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Clement_of_Rome
The small relic, if authenticated, might be deposited in a new Altar at the Consecration of a new Orthodox Temple!!!!
Oh, sure.
Elsewhere, you can find the foreskin of Jesus and other purported items.
It is bogus, of course.
He must have been dumped in shallow water
I believe in the miracle of the fish and loaves BUT IF the Catholic Church said they had some remnants of the miracle fish and loaves then THAT is what I would not believe. One is from God and recorded and the other is man made and fabricated.
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