2006-06-14 12:01:08 · 9 answers · asked by fuentes2513@yahoo.com 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and other Christian Churches believe in the Communion of Saints where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.
Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.
As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.
The New Testament calls Christians "saints," see Matthew 27:52. This would indicate to me that all Christian churches that take the bible literally would have saints.
With love in Christ.
2006-06-14 17:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics use statues as visual reminders ... symbols, if you will ... but do NOT worship the statues. They worship the God that they represent. The believe that the saints, like all believers who have died, still live in the spiritual realm, and can be called upon for intercession. In other words, someone to put in a good word for them. It's based on the old verse "where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I with them also". Starting in the Protestant Reformation, Protestant denominations began to label the use of statues and other imagery as false worship to distinguish themselves from Catholics. As a Baptist, I was taught the old garbage about Catholics worshipping statues, but later became better informed.
2006-06-14 12:09:13 · answer #2 · answered by regularguyz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are not Christians. If they kneel before statues they are practicing pagans or agnostics.
2006-06-14 12:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The statue of Jesus on the bypass is a worship help merely because the empty bypass in a Protestant Church. actual no Protestant believes that it quite is the quite bypass that Jesus replaced into crucified on. that's a reminder of what Jesus suffered to save us from our sins. No Catholic believes that any statue in a Church is the quite human being, which will be ridiculous you may understand that our Holy Father God has no type! you may't make a stature of no type, a similar with the Holy Spirit. between the numerous stuff i love about the Catholic Mass over a Protestant worship service is the actual undeniable truth that distinctive the prayers are directed to God our Father. Jesus never stated we could pray to himself yet that al prayers could be directed to God Our Father. i replaced right into a Protestant until eventually i replaced into 27 y/o when I grew to develop into Catholic and in some church homes all the prayers were directed to Jesus. some Protestants c/o human beings praying to Jesus mom Mary. which couldn't area of the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church. actually everyone appears largely meant to ask Mary to wish for them. actually, Catholics are meant to make an illustration of the bypass and commence asking Mary to wish for them. at the same time as they make the signal of the bypass they are meant to mentally say, :in the call of the daddy, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. I make the signal of the bypass and say that in the previous I pray any prayer.
2016-10-14 04:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No-- Orthodox Christians, and many Anglicans/Episopalians, do, too.
They DON'T worship the statues or the saints-- they, like the Roman Catholics, only worship God. However, since the earliest days of Christianity, they 'venerate' them-- that is, they hold them in particularly high regard, and ask them to pray to God for them (just like they might ask friends at church to pray for them-- since in Christ there is no death, people who have "died" from this world can still pray for us!).
2006-06-14 12:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all, we're not worshiping statues we're just recognizing them and they help us keep in touch with our religion. i dont think we're the only ones that kneel before statues dont buddist do the same and other religions that have statues and pics.
2006-06-14 12:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by helen2258 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. that why most people dont want to accept catholics as christains because the bible said not to worship any statues or objects. by them praying on their knees infront of a statue is doing exactly whta the bible says not to do.
2006-06-14 12:06:23 · answer #7 · answered by ~Sunny Delite~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they kneel to get closer to their next sex partner...an 8 year old
2006-06-14 12:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by Guy R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I think the Orthadox church does
2006-06-14 12:04:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋