tete7000:
Proud to be a catholic. You have any question about my faith? Come to my catechism class. I don't have energy to engage some fundamentals here in an unproductive argument. For more than a thousand year these arguments have been going but thank God while those that put them forward keep changing, the Church remain the same one holy, catholic and apostolic.

phrankchek:
all these protestants self.........

1. the bible you are even quoting was compiled by the same catholic church you criticise...soo how will you have knowledge about the bible more than those that compiled it?

2. The catholic church you say "worship" statue have been in existence since 363 a.d bible figures like peter, john etc where alive and witnessed most of these practises...so do you know more than them? or do you think God will allow the same church to exist all through the centuries if they are "deceiving" people with their doctrines?

3. And i will say it like the 1 million time...CATHOLICS DO NOT WORSHIP STATUES!!!! haba!! statues,images,relics of dead saints are things that help us to remember those people, what they meant to us...you watch movie you see people pick a picture of someone that died whom they love and weep are they worshiping the picture? and if you call it idol worshiping i believe some of your pastors go to some villages and burn down shrines and deities...why haven't they entered any catholic church and conduct "deliverance" by burning down those statues

4. in that same bible God himself ordered moses to put a serpent up on a pole so anyone who looks up to it can be healed, soo did God made his people worship the serpent??

5. and is not rational thinking for christ to order people to make a statue of him when he was on earth, he preaches from place to place...we never hear that he had alot to feed those that followed him soo at that time how will you be making a statue of someone that you walk about the whole country with - preaching?.....when Ojukwu died people decided to make a statue as a make of reference for him and what he stood for...now imagine him when he was alive telling people to go and make a statue of him? what will people say about him?

teadrake:

I mean no disrespect sir/ma but why worship God via his son?Did God forbid you worshipped him directly?

teadrake:

I mean no disrespect sir/ma but why worship God via his son?Did God forbid you worshipped him directly?

glamz007:
proud to be a Catholic or a Christian... am starting to wonder if Catholic is another Religion on its own

JayB11:

Catholism is d root of ur church, the bible was compiled by catholics, Peter the apostle of christ whom Jesus built his church on is the fountain of catholic church. Dont talk about wat you dont understand. The statue is not meant for worship, be rational in ur thought.

danidee10:


Well, I did not write the bible. Was just stating what has been clearly written. GOD in his infinite wisdom had already given us the clear warning before hand. However, the enemy is very crafty, he always finds a way to cause people to disobey. I'm not saying that there are no true Christians in the Catholic church. However, they are doing a lot of things in error. We are to follow the bible and not any man or institution especially when it goes against the instructions of God. Reno Omokri has just made it clear. BE WISE.

You don't have the right to condemn anybody....or tell them they are wrong and you're right....u don't

phrankchek:


soo why do u call ur pastor to pray for you?...."pastor please[b] pray for us[/b] my mum and sister is sick i don't know what is happening in our family" okkk your pastor is closer to God than Mary the mother of Jesus christ abi/

2000logos:
Church simply means a place where a deity is worshipers. Jesus is my deity , who is yours?

No church can save you when you get to heaven, whether you are a Pentecostal or Catholic...Whether you know Bible from beginning till end...you will be judged by your works...If someone has erected a statue of his savior, it is how much that person is worth to him..

Don't be surprised if Muslims even reach heaven before you! #Make your path straight for heaven, check your life you will know you have a lot to correct rather than writing inconclusive articles about Christianity.....Are there no Paint Artists during is time??

What ever you think you believe may be totally false too my friend.You don't know God's mind.

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2000logos:
Church simply means a place where a deity is worshipers. Jesus is my deity , who is yours?

No church can save you when you get to heaven, whether you are a Pentecostal or Catholic...Whether you know Bible from beginning till end...you will be judged by your works...If someone has erected a statue of his savior, it is how much that person is worth to him..

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lalasticlala:



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smogup:
People who oppose religious statuary forget
about the many passages where the
Lord commands the making of statues. For
example: "And you shall make two cherubim of
gold [i.e., two gold statues of angels]; of
hammered work shall you make them, on the
two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub
on the one end, and one cherub on the other
end; of one piece of the mercy seat shall you
make the cherubim on its two ends. The
cherubim shall spread out their wings above,
overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings,
their faces one to another; toward the mercy
seat shall the faces of the cherubim be" (Ex.
25:18–20).
David gave Solomon the plan "for the altar of
incense made of refined gold, and its weight;
also his plan for the golden chariot of the
cherubim that spread their wings and covered the
ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this he
made clear by the writing of the hand of the
Lord concerning it all, all the work to be done
according to the plan" (1 Chr. 28:18–19). David’s
plan for the temple, which the biblical author
tells us was "by the writing of the hand of
the Lord concerning it all," included statues of
angels.
Similarly Ezekiel 41:17–18 describes graven (carved)
images in the idealized temple he was shown in
a vision, for he writes, "On the walls round
about in the inner room and [on] the nave were
carved likenesses of cherubim."
The Religious Uses of Images
During a plague of serpents sent to punish the
Israelites during the exodus, God told Moses to
"make [a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it
on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when
he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze
serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent
bit any man, he would look at the bronze
serpent and live" (Num. 21:8–9).
One had to look at the bronze statue of the
serpent to be healed, which shows that statues
could be used ritually, not merely as religious
decorations.
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other
artistic devices to recall the person or thing
depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s
mother by looking at her photograph, so it
helps to recall the example of the saints by
looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use
statues as teaching tools. In the early Church
they were especially useful for the instruction
of the illiterate. Many Protestants have
pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in
Sunday school for teaching children. Catholics
also use statues to commemorate certain people
and events, much as Protestant churches have
three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas.
If one measured Protestants by the same rule,
then by using these "graven" images, they would
be practicing the "idolatry" of which they
accuse Catholics. But there’s no idolatry going
on in these situations. God forbids
the worship of images as gods, but he doesn’t
ban the making of images. If he had, religious
movies, videos, photographs, paintings, and all
similar things would be banned. But, as the
case of the bronze serpent shows, God does
not even forbid the ritual use of religious
images.
It is when people begin to adore a statue as a
god that the Lord becomes angry. Thus when
people did start to worship the bronze serpent
as a snake-god (whom they named "Nehushtan",
the righteous king Hezekiah had it destroyed (2
Kgs. 18:4).

glamz007:
so u can swear that you've never seen any Catholic that bow down infront of these images??

franklingud:
I am a catholic but I can categorically tell you that statue is not Jesus Christ.