2007-02-03 10:50:54 · 10 answers · asked by doodlejoe2000 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes-- EXACTLY!
2007-02-03 10:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What are you talking about the Pope isn't worship any Idol, nor do Nuns. The answer is NO. No Catholic worships idols.
2007-02-03 10:55:20 · answer #2 · answered by Pichka 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Catholics worship idols.
Do you have pictures of your loved ones?
Statues and pictures of people we love are not idols.
Statues and paintings of Jesus and the saints are just like pictures of the people we love and respect.
The King James Version of the Bible states in Exodus 20:4: "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"
Why were the Jews commanded not to make graven images? Graven images were the standard method of pagan worship. They were representations of false gods.
This is a very clear command.
However God commanded the Jews in Exodus 25:18 and 1 Chronicles 28:18–19, "And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them"
And in 1 Kings chapter 7 Solomon made bulls and other images out of precious metals.
It seems obvious that the Jews did not worship the cherubims and Solomon did not worship the bulls he had made. These images did not violate the command of God. Therefore, an image not made for worship is acceptable.
In Numbers 21:8-9, "And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover." Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered."
And in John 3:14-15, Jesus says in correlation, "And just as Moses lifted up the [image of a] serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
How can a statue of our Lord Jesus Christ dead on the cross be considered an idol to a false god? A crucifix is the message of the Gospel without words held up for all to see, a visual reminder of the sacrifice of Jesus, no different from a painting, a play, or a movie.
Catholics do not worship statues but the almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-03 16:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beatification of John Paul II is the 1st step on the line to Sainthood. It supplies him the marvelous to be called "BLESSED" interior the Catholic church. the reason they're exhuming him is with the help of the fact they're development him a sparkling crypt. i think of they scheduled the beatification around the development of the recent crypt for this purpose.
2016-09-28 09:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Troll trying to get a rise out of the RC's are you? RC's do not worship anyone but God. What "idol" are you muttering about? I am not even RC and I am offended by your question on their behave.
2007-02-03 11:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics don't "worshipp idols"
This is the 21st century--that kind of bigoted slanderwent out of fashion 300 years ago.
2007-02-03 10:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bigotry towards Catholics is still alive and well.
2007-02-03 10:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They just Pray to them. but its Still Wrong.
"For there is one God, and One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" 1 Timothy 2:5
2007-02-03 10:57:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
nuns are one of the worst disciplinaries of the catholic religion they worship the mary magdalane
2007-02-03 10:54:31 · answer #9 · answered by shannara 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Um.... what?
2007-02-03 10:53:09 · answer #10 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋