Next time you see the flowers in front of the image of a saint recall that wreathe that is placed before the tombs of the Unknown, or even the flowers on a mether's grave. It has the same meaning
I hear what you are saying but to me it seems to be more than a remembrance. It would be like placing flowers in the arms of a statue of a mother or soldier, kneeling on an alter before them, and praying to someone who has died, which I think somewhere in the Bible, God tells us not to do. I'm looking for it.
Go to Washington and see the people leaving flowers and kneeling in honor of their fallen loved ones at the Vietnam memorial. Heck, go to any cemetery.
People leave offerings of flowers. This doesn't equate to worship.
SD
Yall seem to think I'm bashing Mary. That is absolutely incorrect. I have repeatedly stated I have the highest respect for her (the mother of Jesus) for what she did but I don't accept that she is part of the trinity. Show me scripture where I'm wrong.
Again, who said that she was "part of the Trinity"?
Show me where any Catholic has said such a thing.
I find it interesting that, even while you are in the midst of a discussion with others about whether the "saved" are "perfect" or not (and coming to the conclusion that they are, but shouldn't mention it cause it might confuse people) you insist on equating a sinless human with divinity.
Is that really what you think? That a human being who is free from sin is a god?
SD