stanwheellz:

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 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.

Catholics use d BIBLE
THEY HAVE PRAYER BOOKS JUST LIKE ANY ODA PRAYER

CATHOLICS DONT WORHIP SAINTS BUT TEACH TO PEOPLE EMULATE THE LIFE OF THIS SAINTS
FOR LIVING THE FAITH
(christ like)

CATHOLICS HONOUR MARY JUST AS WE HONOUR OUR MOTHER IN OUR HOMES.


STOP TALKING ILL OF CATHOLICS JUST BCAUSE OF YOUS SMALL BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND.

brainhgeek:


Christ became our sacrifice and Passover. You can't suffer for the sin of the world or yourself all in a bid to appease God. If that is a prerequisite to redemption then, don't you think Jesus died in vain? Fasting is best done to appreciate and honor God amongst other reasons however.

kerry57:
RIP. We all die someday according to Eminem. God rest ur soul.

Nodogragra4me:
Ubenedictus is somebody I have watched closely and engaged here.. He can defend even the most ridiculous issues by twisting the scripture
He once stated that the catholic bazaar is the same as buying back the first born in the old testament. That a lady somewhere in the east suffering satanic affliction was actually bearing the marks of Christ on her body.

mechanics:
Why was he sleeping on iron bed and block as pillow, that's not proper.

Ubenedictus:
So you didnt know catholic church was among its founding members?

Tedassie:

Catholicism replaced Christ as the ONLY salvation of man with Mary worship. They make images of her and refer to her as the 'Queen of Heaven'. And we know in the old testament that name was ascribed to a pagan deity. So what do you want to tell me again that Catholicism is not repackaged paganism?

Tedassie:

As you know, all belief systems around the world that we called religion is founded by a central figure, whose life patterns are modelled by the followers. When Jesus was here on earth, did he establish RELIGION? Religion is just man's invention. God did not institute Religion but man did
Infact, Christianity was not supposed to be tagged a RELIGION, but for the sake of records it was lumped among the thousands of false belief system we have today.

tranxo:


Catholic church created CAN? Chai! Uncle you can lie ooo!!

miketayo:


The Christian Association of Nigeria was founded in 1976, and originally only contained the Catholic Church and mainline Protestant..

Where are the mainline protestant church today?..
The Pentecostal church joined way after. So how is leaving a now corrupted organisation for the Pentecostal churches mean they r not Christians again?

miketayo:

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lmao are you talking about the corrupted CAN organisation that has completely lost it ways.. the organization was created by the Catholic church in the first place.. its now more of a political organization than a christian one.
catholics dont have there own scriptures there a other passages found in the later years just as each book was compiled to form the 66, there were other lost books which were later found and added..

tranxo:


By WHOM? YOU PEOPLE CAN TWIST WORDS EHHH!! Tufiakwa!!

miketayo:


U didn't see wat followed the statement Abi?

miketayo:

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lmao are you talking about the corrupted CAN organisation that has completely lost it ways.. the organization was created by the Catholic church in the first place.. its now more of a political organization than a christian one.
catholics dont have there own scriptures there a other passages found in the later years just as each book was compiled to form the 66, there were other lost books which were later found and added..

tranxo:


If you are proud and confident to blow a lie in a public forum, also be confident and proud to admit the lie and accept your folly.

Kindly respond to this original statement you made (especially the bolded, below in case you selectively didn't see it) before we start talking about whatever statement that followed.

miketayo:


I m sure you read this "
The Christian Association of Nigeria was founded in 1976, and originally only contained the Catholic Church and mainline Protestant"
It only contained the Catholic church and protestant..
Where is the lie in this

miketayo:

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lmao are you talking about the corrupted CAN organisation that has completely lost it ways.. the organization was created by the Catholic church in the first place.. .

SalC:

The never complained.

tranxo:


Why are you suddenly dumb over this one below. . or you no longer recognised your superiority complex statement?

miketayo:


From comments is obviously the results of them say them say, u know nothing about the Catholic church. Has any Catholic told u they replaced Christ with Mary? There is no Catholic church u enter that u wont see d crucifix at the altar.. Catholics do not worship Mary no Catholic will tell u he/she worships Mary, you r obviously just following the crowd without knowing anything about the churh

miketayo:


U have shifted from cultism to religion .. religion is a general term, if it's not called religion it would be called another general term so no point here..
We call them false belief but to them Christianity is a false belief too.

SalC:

That you can't counter him doesn't mean he twists the scriptures. It simply mean you should study harder.

Tedassie:

You're a big joke,bruh@ "no Catholics will tell u he/she worships Mary" . Just the same way a Satanist, A FreeMason, A Buddhist will also tell you that they don't worship Satan but you and i know their belief system is founded on human principles(devoid of glorification of the person of Christ) and anything that is such, no matter how pleasing it seems to basic human judgment and reason. It is FALSE! You guys basically reenact Babylonian worship. Stop deceiving yourselves.

miketayo:


Are you blind or ur just slow, the Catholic church created the CAN organisation or r u referring to the corruption

Tedassie:

But you chose to throw around the term 'Cult' loosely and couldn't expatiate anything! So you will have no choice but to agree with me that Catholicism is a false belief too propagated by mere men who did not have the true Holyspirit in them.
1 John 4:1
Galatians 1:6-9

tranxo:


Lol. Lies from the pit of hell! Even if your church leadership lied to you about certain things, can't you verify facts for yourself?

Will indulge and enlighten you just this once. You would be smart to check out the links below. If you would anyway.


http://canng.org/about-can/2-about-can

https://books.openedition.org/ifra/415?lang=en

Be enlightened.