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Every Catholic institution has images of Mary, Jesus and male and female figures. An example of this are two statues at the French Papal Palace of Avignon, one of Jesus about 20 metres above ground level, and the other is an enormous statue of Mary, much larger, grander and higher up than that of Jesus. This gives the greater honour to Mary than Jesus. It also clearly breaks the second Commandment forbidding making images of things in heaven.

 

"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them..." —Exodus 20:5. Ok, so then why do so many catholics and the pope  BOW DOWN before a statue of Mary in their worship places?
 

Exodus 20:4,5 couldn't be any clearer that even BOWING down to a statue is idolatry.  Yet, Catholics foolishly claim that they are not worshipping the statues they are bowing down to.  BUT, God forbids us from even bowing to statues.  In fact, the Bible is so clear on this matter that the Vatican has even REMOVED the second of the Ten Commandments to deceive you.  

Exodus20:4-5. "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."  Vs5 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God." Isaiah 42:8 "I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images."

God DID specifically commanded CERTAIN statues to be made. Were they worshipped? No, were they bowed down to? No. Were the cerebrum on the ark of the covenant bowed down to or worshipped? No. Moses' brass snake was to demonstrate Gods healing power, so the people would know that their healing was from God and not just a coincidence, as you well know. Show me where God SPECIFICALLY commands us to make images of Mary and the pope and to bow to them?
 

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out of respect to a few of our members   :taped:

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On ‎8‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 8:10 AM, other one said:

out of respect to a few of our members   :taped:

Seems like this topic has been beaten to death.  :39:

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37 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Seems like this topic has been beaten to death.  :39:

Yes it has been. If you go back to many other posts you will find lengthy debates. Then often get heated.

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30 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Yes it has been. If you go back to many other posts you will find lengthy debates. Then often get heated.

Yes they do.  But that's expected with subjects posters are passionate about.  KiwiChristian may not be aware of how often this topic pops up.

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I've gone ahead and removed a few posts.  I removed an apology from Miss to you Saved.One as most people wouldn't have understood it. 

Let's just stay on topic. :)

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9 minutes ago, George said:

I've gone ahead and removed a few posts.  I removed an apology from Miss to you Saved.One as most people wouldn't have understood it. 

Let's just stay on topic. :)

Thank you George. 

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