Are Christians Idol worshipers?

Question

check this out :

http://www.leveltruth.com/documents/Appendix1.pdf

Answer 1

I don't have to read through that to know Christians are Idol worshipers.Myself being a Catholic.If Christians weren't idol worshipers,then why do we have Images of Jesus on a cross everywhere?And why do Christian's pray to Jesus and Mary???You should pray to God and that's it.

Answer 2

True Christians do not worship idols. However, sadly, many who "claim" to be Christians do.

Jesus followers are warned in a loving way being called "little children": "Guard yourselves from idols." 1 John 5:21

At Galatians 5:19,20 it speaks of "the works of the flesh" which includes idolatry right along with fornication, practice of spiritism, and uncleanness, and it says that "those who practice such things will not inherit God's kingdom."

The apostle Paul also said at 1 Corinthians 10:14: "Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry."

And Exodus 20:4,5 (although part of the old testament, Jesus referred to scriptures in the old testament time and time again, so the principles contained therein are still valid for true Christians today.) contains words from God showing how he feels about idols. It says: : "You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them." This is because an idol "is a thing detestable to Jehovah." (Deuteronomy 7:25,26).

So clearly, idol worship is something contrary to God's laws and also against the teachings of the Christ.

Answer 3

The question is a difficult one to answer because of its ambiguity. If you were to ask Should Christians be idol worshipers it would be easier. But the fact is that there are Christians who are idol worshipers and there are Christians who aren't, but just because Christan's do something doesn't mean it coincides with there beliefs.

Answer 4

Come on... what's going on here.

The document said:

"Regardless of how a person views the subject, assigning the smallest degree of value to an object is to assign a degree of worthiness, or worship. A person need not bow down or pray to an image in order to qualify as worshipping it (i.e. assigning worth to it), although to do so certainly raises the offense by logarithmic degrees."

Come on....

Humans are object because they have beings. Humans are images because we are created in God's image.

Does that mean when you say to your son or a young child "Good Boy", you are lying to him? That he actually does not have value and is worthless?
That the boy actually deserves to be intern in a garbage dump or immersing him in the ripe sewage of a well-used septic tank?

Please talk sense. If only you can see and touch all things with love.

God has the greatest value. God is the greatest. How great is God that even the tiniest air that God breathe is great for he is so great. God is so great that even the thought of him is holy.

I would go one step further that every thing that is associated to God is holy and deemed as great all because of His greatness... all are part of that reverence to that greatness of God.

To me, the Roman Catholic Church are consist of humans and people in this world all longing for God's love and grace. Just take Mother Theresa. To think that she should be immerse in some filthy container is unthinkable and yet that is the very thing she did all for the sake of the love for human beings.

Come on, why do you persecute the Church? After all .....

For in the end, God is Great!

Answer 5

I dont look at or recognize any of the stuff mentioned....mary, saints, stained glass windows...all churchey stuff.

I worship G-d the father son and spirit and the living word and thats it brother.

So are all Christians idol worshippers? NO
Are some? Yes
Does that mean G-d's grace is not suffient for them? NO
Would I like to see it stop? YES

Blessings,
David

Answer 6

No, we Christians worship only the Almighty, Most Holy, Most High God, who has revealed Himself in three distinct but inseparable Persons.

Answer 7

I believe that praying to the saints or kneeling in front of statues is not taught in the bible but rather is forbidden. The scriptures warn of the danger of taking man made traditions over God's word. Jesus never told us to pray to Mary. If something tht important were true he would have mentioned it. None of the apostles mention praying to the dead saints either. Again I would stick with what Jesus and the apostles taught in the scriptures.

Answer 8

there are diverse blunders on your statements that i'll't probably face them immediately, a lot less debunk all of them. No, we are no longer "Texas Sharpshooters." Dream on. the rationalization why human beings did not imagine that Jesus should be the Messiah is because their instructors appeared at prophecies of the destiny as issues that the Messiah ought to do for the period of his life. Jesus replaced into the selected savior of mankind, so the time period "anointed" is proper. you've heard of figures of speech, i wish. Oh, through ways, Orthodox Jews prepare a minimum of a partial immersion as area of the conversion procedure, so that you're finished of warm air. Who says we worship Jesus? If we do, that's less than we worship his father, God. back, you're finished of warm air, because Jesus claimed to be Jehovah (YHWH). You win the prize for the most blunders i have stated in a unmarried post. Congratulations.

Answer 9

Jack Chick, the guy who wrote those little pamphlets with cartoons on them you see everywhere, thinks so. Depending on the faction of christianity you're talking about, it's either acceptable or not to use icons, with various arguments either way.

Answer 10

Why bow down to something that has no spirit or worthiness? If what meg says is correct, then buddhist, and even Baal worshipers are not idolaters. because they are worshiping what it represent, which is a totally different sin: false gods!