ALIBI ONE: Psalms 68:24 Your procession has come into view, O God,
the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.(New International Version)
REFUTATION: Catholic defenders use this verse from a Protestant Bible if I am not mistaken.
I myself say that this is mistranslation. I want to quote from the one of the original manuscripts and I chose Latin Vulgate to see the real translation of this verse.
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
REFUTATION: Catholic defenders use this verse from a Protestant Bible if I am not mistaken.
I myself say that this is mistranslation. I want to quote from the one of the original manuscripts and I chose Latin Vulgate to see the real translation of this verse.
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
contenebrentur oculi eorum ne videant et dorsum eorum semper incurva
Besides, the verse clearly says PROCESSION OF MY GOD.
Does the Catholic Church have procession for God? NO! THEY HAVE PROCESSION OF SAINTS AND WORSE WITH GRAVEN IMAGES OF THEM.
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Does the Catholic Church have procession for God? NO! THEY HAVE PROCESSION OF SAINTS AND WORSE WITH GRAVEN IMAGES OF THEM.
Look at this picture
Will God agree to have graven images when worshipping Him? NO!
A) Jesus said to WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT as mentioned in John 4:24
A spirit has no form and it cannot be touch.
IT MEANS WE MUST WORSHIP GOD W/O ANY VISUAL AIDS LIKE GRAVEN IMAGES OR PICTURES SIMILAR OF WHAT THE HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS ARE DOING.
B) A bronze serpent which Moses created was destroyed for just burning incense on it.
WHAT'S MORE PARADING IT FOR PROCESSION PLUS TO KNEEL AND PRAY ON IT?
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the
groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for
unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he
called it Nehushtan.
C) God himself said IT IS CORRUPTION FOR HIS SERVANTS if they will make images of man and woman:
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
D) God himself not to bow down on images.
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
C) God himself said IT IS CORRUPTION FOR HIS SERVANTS if they will make images of man and woman:
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
D) God himself not to bow down on images.
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Sadly Catholic bow down on images
Sadly Catholic bow down on images
E) God himself said that HIS ALTAR SHOULD NOT HAVE GRAVEN IMAGES WITH IT.
Deuterenomy 16:21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:
non plantabis lucum et omnem arborem iuxta altare Domini Dei tui
Deuteronomy 16:22 Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.
nec facies tibi atque constitues statuam quae odit Dominus Deus tuus
In fact God became furious when an image was made and WORSHIPPED IT during the FEAST OF THE LORD.
Exodus 32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.
Exodus 32:6 And
they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and
brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink,
and rose up to play.
Exodus 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Exodus 32:8 They
have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they
have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have
sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
SADLY, CATHOLIC DOCTRINE TEACHES TO WORSHIP GRAVEN IMAGES
ALIBI TWO: 2 Corinthians 2:14 But
thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ
and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of
him.
REFUTATION: Another mistranslation!2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. (Latin Vulgate)
Deo autem gratias qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Iesu et odorem notitiae suae manifestat per nos in omni loco
Processsion in Christ does not require graven images.
In fact, The New Testament says about these idols or graven images which the worshippers rely or trust.
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
WHAT ARE IDOLS IN THE BIBLE? They have body parts similar to humans but cannot hear, see etc.
Psalms 135:15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
Psalms 135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Christians were commanded not to worship the idols but to flee from it. so they should not use images while worshipping God.
1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Idolatry will make them not inherit the Kingdom of God as mentioned in Galatians 5:20-21.
Because Jesus taught them to worship God in Spirit as mentioned in John 4:24.
A Spirit has no form to be seen. They must worship God w/o visual aids like images or pictures.
Jesus Christ taught us on how to pray to the Father. We are taught to worship HIS NAME and not the image.
Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
There is no commandment by Jesus Christ or his apostles to make graven images as a way to remember God also instead these were taught to Christians:
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
John 20:29 Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Do we need images to remember God? NO NEED!
The name of God is the one we Christians should worship as Jesus taught and not the graven image (read again on Matthew 6:9)
Idol worshippers/Idolaters in fact are commanded to be removed from the Christian Church.
Idols are with ears, eyes, mouth which cannot see, hear or speak and they do not have breath and those who trust them will be like them (not physically but spiritually) - Read Psalms 135:15-18
In the Bible, the thing that can make us remind of God is this: (HIS CREATIONS AND NOT THE GRAVEN IMAGES)
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Does the Catholic Church rely or trust on graven images according to her doctrine? YES!
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