4reala:
I think so

omartins:
Op, many will say you're quoting old testament and they forget that tithe and first fruit is also in old testament.
Those running to altar before or after service kneeling, bowing and or rolling to pray where their pastor just left don't see anything idolatry in it.

Jusmudi:

Nd sorry 2 condemn immediately afta service dey go down 2 pray is like praying in empty hall because nn blessed sacrament

ShyNeptune:

Really, I do not understand this.

cckris:
YES
Catholic Bible says don't MAKE any image.

Jusmudi:



Am talkin abt oda churches wu dn't hv blessed sacrament yet dey kneel 2 pray in an empty hall

BLINGZ88:
the same bible told Moses to make a statue of SNAKE!!!!, the same bible told the isrealites to build d ark of covenant. Even Paul in his preaching(act 17:23) that he came to tell them about about the unknown IDOL

Jusmudi:

Nd sorry 2 condemn immediately afta service dey go down 2 pray is like praying in empty hall because nn blessed sacrament

omartins:

Can't deduce what you mean.

Jusmudi:


Dis is nt an Ansa, bt tanks 4 commenting

BLINGZ88:
Catholics don't worship statues believe it or not, that u have something doesn't mean we worship it.

ShyNeptune:

What makes the hall empty? The absence of the blessed sacrament?
Does that not sound funny to you sir?

Jusmudi:


Nt like dt bros like catholic church uu can nt eat in presence of blessed sacrament bt in oda churches u can eat anywere

SUPERPACK:

but when u combine it with- HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD.
mary was nt holy, and she did nt give birth to God.

ShyNeptune:

Okay. Cool

ShyNeptune:

I seem to disagree on this.
What's your own definition of holy?
And who did Mary give birth to?

SUPERPACK:

but when u combine it with- HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD.
mary was nt holy, and she did nt give birth to God.

Jusmudi:
"Catholics worship statues!" People still make this ridiculous claim. Because Catholics have statues in their churches, goes the accusation, they are violating God’s commandment: "You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow down to them or serve them" (Ex. 20:4–5); "Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold" (Ex. 32:31).
It is right to warn people against the sin of idolatry when they are committing it. But calling Catholics idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints is based on misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and uses (both good and bad) of statues.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, makes the blanket statement, "God has forbidden the use of images in worship" (281). Yet if people were to "search the scriptures" (cf. John 5:39), they would find the opposite is true. God forbade the worship of statues, but he did not forbid the religious use of statues. Instead, he actually commanded their use in religious contexts!
God Said To Make Them
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 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 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). What About Bowing?
Sometimes anti-Catholics cite Deuteronomy 5:9, where God said concerning idols, "You shall not bow down to them." Since many Catholics sometimes bow or kneel in front of statues of Jesus and the saints, anti-Catholics confuse the legitimate veneration of a sacred image with the sin of idolatry.
Though bowing can be used as a posture in worship, not all bowing is worship. In Japan, people show respect by bowing in greeting (the equivalent of the Western handshake). Similarly, a person can kneel before a king without worshipping him as a god. In the same way, a Catholic who may kneel in front of a statue while praying isn’t worshipping the statue or even praying to it, any more than the Protestant who kneels with a Bible in his hands when praying is worshipping the Bible or praying to it.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/do-catholics-worship-statues
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dolphinheart:


op, you have shown us where God commanded the making of certain images, you have even shown us where it is recorded. but you have not shown us where God commanded the making of the image of Mary or of Jesus, neither have you shown where such commands where recorded.

gods command: " do not make for yourself". my view of the command: do not make for yourself unless I command you to make it.!

KoloOyinbo:


To non catholics it sometimes SEEMS the statues are being worshiped but to the Catholics in question they most certainly are NOT worshiping the image. Catholics worship ONLY God.

I understand the opposing point of view but it comes from ignorance of Catholicism. Few non Catholics in the developed world now put forward this erronous belief (although there are still a few who promote this myth for reasons of religious bigotry or pure ignorance) sadly this silly idea still persists in the developing world as religions scramble for converts and promote lies about each other.

dolphinheart:


dnt think I asked about the statues being worshipped na, Check my post again

KoloOyinbo:

The thread was do they worship statues. I gave the answer.