The 10 commandments says us not to create a idol to worship GOD?But why so called christians worship idols?

Question

Roman catholics worship Mary statues and even idols of Peter,John etc.. icant understand how they justify this?

Answer 1

Catholics don't worship the statues, they use the image as a means of centering their thoughts for prayer. You've been misled by whoever told you that. Probably the same morons who claim Catholics are not Christians when in fact they were the first Christians.

Besides, the Lutherans have reconciled with the Catholic Church and the process toward unification has begun, as is also the case with Eastern Orthodox Christians. Would they return to the fold if what you say were actually true? Meanwhile all the other Chrstian faiths are in the process of further splintering apart. Of course other Christian faiths try desperately to tear down Catholicism with their hatred, likely because they fear the truth.

Answer 2

Roman Catholicism is on a different tangent from what the Bible teaches which is the reason why Catholics are not encourage to read the Bible and mass is held in latin.

When Catholics read the Bible problems start to arise as they question the religious rituals that take place in the Catholic Church - an enlightened catholic led the reformation in the 16th century - Martin Luther.

I will also make a statement that many catholics will find incendiary - Catholics are not Christians; they are Roman Catholic. I make that statement based on the following:

1. A christian does not need a physical priest. Any man/woman who is saved through giving their life to Christ has become a priest who can approach God freely because they have a spiritual high priest according to the order of Melchizediek (Jesus Christ himself). This invalidates the need to go to confession.

2. A christian is commanded not to pray to any angel or worship any angel nor pray to any Virgin Mary - the only access to God is through Christ.

3. Christians are supposed to have a berean attitude (which means to examine the bible) and Catholics are not encouraged to do so.

You should also know that as soon as Martin Luther got revelation from God he left the monastery and got married. Point I'm making is that there is no where in the bible where it requries men or women to become priests and nuns....all forms of false piety....

Not meant as an incendiary but meant to be an eye opener to anyone who has fallen for false piety...

Answer 3

Apparantly you have not seen their version of the Ten Commandments. The second commandment has been left totally out and the tenth command has been split in two. You will not find Catholics that will tell you they worship idols or pray to Mary or the saints but that they pray to them so they will pray for them. I know of what I speak as I was a Catholic for many years and my mother is still one. My question for them is, why go to the saints and to Mary to pray for them when they are all dead rather than go to the living God that is alive that is the only mediator between God and man? The bible states in no uncertain terms that the dead are not in Heaven, do not hear anything and has nothing to do with anything that goes on here on this Earth. Need proof of that, I can give you chapters and verses. Now if you take out the second commandment, you have no more idols so you are not worshipping them but only praying to them so they will pray for you to ask God what you want passed on. I don't pray to the statues, they are only there to remind me of the person it represents!!! Yea, right!! I used to use that myself. Why then does the statue of Peter in the VAtican have to replace the toe so often from so many that kiss the toe and wear it out or the statues of Mary that are adorned so and paraded through the streets and everyone following it in prayer to her and kissing the statue? No commandment, no idol worship!!

Answer 4

It is because hateful bigots propogate this satanic lie. Catholics DO NOT worship statues as idols. They are simply instruments that ascend the mind to God. The heresy of iconoclasm is a cultish preoccupation that results in this false accusations.

God COMMANDED that objects be used for worship, but forbids the objects themselves to be worshipped. Catholics strictly forbid the worship of any idol. It is the idol of the ego that is worshipped by these accusers, who are lost in ignornace.

Out of all these iconoclasitic heretics, none of them have ever defined what an idol is according to the bible.

By the same standards you accuse Catholics, try applying them to your "T" shirts, and whose pics are on your CD"s?? Isn't that idolatry? How about the idols of bumper stickers. Or "Christian" tattoos and jewelry. How about the "idols" found in childrens bibles??? Or nativity "idols" and Christmas cards??? So if something has 3 dimensions instead of two, suddenly it's an idol where the two dimensions is not??? That is insane.

Here is a list of scriptures proving the statue worship charge is a lie:
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/sacramentals.html

Here are some samples from the above link:

Exodus 25:18-22; 26:1,31 - for example, God commands the making of the image of a golden cherubim. This heavenly image, of course, is not worshiped by the Israelites. Instead, the image disposes their minds to the supernatural and draws them to God.

Num. 21:8-9 - God also commands the making of the bronze serpent. The image of the bronze serpent is not an idol to be worshiped, but an article that lifts the mind to the supernatural.

I Kings 6:23-36; 7:27-39; 8:6-67 - Solomon's temple contains statues of cherubim and images of cherubim, oxen and lions. God did not condemn these images that were used in worship.

Col. 1:15 - the only image of God that Catholics worship is Jesus Christ, who is the "image" (Greek "eikon") of the invisible God.

Since the days of the apostles, the Catholic Church has consistently condemned the sin of idolatry. The early Church Fathers warn against this sin, and Church councils also dealt with the issue.

The Church absolutely recognizes and condemns the sin of idolatry. What anti-Catholics fail to recognize is the distinction between thinking a piece of stone or plaster is a god and desiring to visually remember Christ and the saints in heaven by making statues in their honor. The making and use of religious statues is a thoroughly biblical practice. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know his Bible.

for a fuller explanation see
http://www.catholic.com/library/do_catholics_worship_statues.asp

Answer 5

This is quite a recurring theme... Roman Catholics do not worship Mary or Peter or John. They only worship God.

What they do have are statues of people that are holy. That's a mark of remembrance for very special peoples. We all keep pictures of relatives and friends who are no longer with us. We have statues of great leaders. Does that mean we're to worship them? No! So what is so wrong about a statue of Mary?

Answer 6

Well, don't pile all Christians in with Catholics. They do a lot of wierd things for reasons nobody can explain. That's why Martin Luther noticed the inconsistancies and was banished from the church. That caused the protestant revolution.
The whole idea of praying to Mary or the saints is a contradiction to what Jesus taught, since only He is the true reason that we can pray to God.

Answer 7

Take a step again out of your question, and reconsider the best judgment in the back of it, please. Worship would not equivalent prayer. Saints are not a similar component as idols. We Catholics ask the saints for his or her prayers, yet we worship God and Him on my own. An idol is a few thing it is worshiped in determination to God, and that is precisely forbidden by using the Church. and the way in the international do you get the theory that a saint is an idol to be worshiped? Saints are all those in Heaven and in the international who believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. i like my Christian sister who's a saint in the international, yet i do not worship her. I also love the Blessed Virgin Mary who's a saint in Heaven, yet i do not worship her, both. notwithstanding, I *do* ask both one in all them to desire for me each so typically. There are too many examples interior the Bible of folk inquiring for different believers to desire for them that i visit't record all of them. Jesus is our only Mediator in concerns of salvation, yet he's honestly *no longer* our only intercessor in prayer. Now i imagine you will see only how fouled up your good judgment changed into from the get-bypass. you also comprehend the reality about what we Catholics believe, so that you've a decision: reconsider your unique premise or lie anytime you repeat it from the following on out. Your call.

Answer 8

Highlighting the foolishness of idol worship, the prophecy continues: “They carry it upon the shoulder, they bear it and deposit it in its place that it may stand still. From its standing place it does not move away. One even cries out to it, but it does not answer; out of one’s distress it does not save one.” (Isaiah 46:7) How ridiculous to pray to an image that lacks the ability either to hear or to act! The psalmist well describes the uselessness of such objects of worship: “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of the hands of earthling man. A mouth they have, but they cannot speak; eyes they have, but they cannot see; ears they have, but they cannot hear. A nose they have, but they cannot smell. Hands are theirs, but they cannot feel. Feet are theirs, but they cannot walk; they utter no sound with their throat. Those making them will become just like them, all those who are trusting in them.”—Psalm 115:4-8.

Answer 9

They can't justify half the crap they do..... remember, a Catholic is never wrong! (Yeah, Right! As milk shoots out my nose in laughter!) The Priests are supposed to abstain from sex, also, yet they still hump little boys! Go Figure! There isn't any explaining the Catholics!

Answer 10

Wow! So much hatred from "Christians" who are totally ignorant of Catholicism!!! Just say the word "Catholic" and the lies come out of the woodwork.

Here is the proof that it was NOT Catholics who changed the Ten Commandments, but prot-cultists.
http://www.theotokos.co.za/adventism/bobs10c.html