apparently you need hooked on phonics or something. you keep taking my statements out of context. re read my WHOLE statement. then when you can respond without taking it out of context, i will be happy to converse with you. peace be with you.
One of the many claims on this site is that Catholics give undue honor to Mary, statues and other objects. My discussion has been within this framework. If your unable to defend your faith then just say so.I do agree however these topics have been discused ad nauseum.
I am quite capable of defending my position, but this is not the place for it. I will once again ask you to have the courtesy to open a new thread if you wish to discuss this.
I was simply responding to your post, Nine Two…something that is actually encouraged in this forum. If you believe, however, that I was scolding you, then perhaps that too is subjective. You might want to consider whether there is a reason you should feel scolded.
In internet edicit capital letters are considered to be quite rude and tend to be taken as anger as a matter of convention.
It is also considered to be a method of emphasis. (shrug) however, my question still stands, as does the statement. The fact is, my response was to your declaration of who is, and who is not, worshiping what, when and where. I told you that you don’t get to make that decision for those doing the worshiping…or not, as the case may be.
Reported.Hey, I’ve done that! I buried a small figure of St Joseph when we put our house up for sale a few years back. My wife and I then said a prayer to St Joseph (patron saint of home and family) to send the right buyer for the house. Now, the prayer without burying the statue would have been just as effective, but the statue thing is a harmless tradition that reinforces our belief that God is there to help with every aspect of our lives. Either way, the Protestants don’t like praying to saints, or the presence of icons and such. I don’t know what brand of Protestant tradition you adhere to, but my wife and I misspent some of our youth in Protestant Churches. You were talking about “bizarre” behavior? We saw plenty of that there I can tell you. Some of it was down right spooky.
I sorta have to chuckle as I think of a believer asking Peter or Paul “Hey do you mind if we made little statues of you to do various things with” and the response I could imagine them saying… I’m not trying to make fun of your practices but wondering how the original disciples would respond to some of the practices we all do…We were living in Fl.when I had health problems from a work accident…We both felt the Lord telling us to move back to Pa to be around are family was what God was showing us…We go straight to the Lord…Lord we feel you drawing us back to Pa, would You work it all out…An ad went in the local penny saver…The day after the paper came out the house sold for more than we paid for it and my wife was called for an interview on the rail train home and got the job which she has today… Even today we have put are mobilehome for sale and moved to rent to rid ourselves of debt for the days ahead…As for protestant bizarre, you weren’t with the snake handlers were you?I know the scripture they use but also we aren’t to temp the Lord… I also have heard of services they were "barking…I know the Lord will sort it out in the end…He knows who are hot, cold and luke warm(scary place)…May the Lord bless and draw you closer to Him in these last days…Peace to you…K
Sure you are…If I recall my old testament correctly God had the Hebrews make a graven image, a serpent and when they looked at it they were healed. Also, an old woman once was healed just by touching Jesus cloak. Did that serpent have power?, Did Jesus cloak have power? No, the power came from God. So, don’t presume to think what St Peter or St Paul may have thought about Catholic statues. Don’t assume they were “Protestant” in their thinking. Indeed, we have it on very good authority that they thought like Catholics. For example:
No, no snake handlers just your run of the mill evangelical / Pentecostals. I have had folks quote that same verse from Revelation to me when they talked about the way Catholics worship. What they are saying is that if you don’t jump up and down shake, wiggle and flop on the floor like a fish you are cold or lukewarm. They equate emotionalism with worship, and if your not babbling incoherently you can’t have the Holy Spirit. Being hot or cold or lukewarm has nothing to with how loud you shout, or how long you sing. Some see worship as reverence and devotion, quiet prayer and meditation.
I believe that Jack Chick has passed away. I haven’t ssen any of his phamplets in a long time. They are actually quite entertaining to read, and the art work is as good as any comic book.
Jack Chick huh…I was given a tract in 1973 (This is your life) of his from a cute blond…She and her boyfriend took me to an evangelistic crusade where I heard more and later experienced a radical conversion experience(ask my druggy coworkers at the time). I have handed out literally hundreds of those over the years…Lord only knows who came to Him from them…Guess I’ll find out one day…His word does not return void…peace to you…Kim