why do catholics have statues and images which they bow to even though the bible said we shouldnt?

Question

i'm a catholic but it baffles me why we have "idols"while exodux 20 says we shouldnt

Answer 1

The catholic always make excuses and deny what they are really doing . they says they never worshiping an idol. but you barely see it. They twisted the verses of the bible to prove what they claim but if you read carefully and get the real sense of the verses they are given, you will see that they are lying.

And also don't be surprise that the catholic authority claim that they are of God and they follow the teaching of Christ, you know even the devil is pretend to be of God to deceive many " 2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."


And there is also many erroneous doctrine of the Catholic church
1. the trinity
2. praying the rosary
3. purgatory
4. and many more to list

Answer 2

no person is genuine. This is going no longer purely to the Filipino's yet to all Catholics international. So, MTmorph, don't be biased. the hot testomony is made around 60 years or so after the dying of Jesus Christ. The early Christians used oral traditions available down the bills of the NT. As you will see Gospels are no longer a similar bills as those of the apostles themselves. Logically speaking, each and every account differences everytime that's surpassed down from one era to a various. i comprehend i'm a Catholic yet I had exterior components that informed me to no longer have faith those religious entities. So, i'm in a conflict appropriate now on what to truly have faith. faith or logic? And For the previous testomony, the source of training is oblivious. The Bible became out to be the main controversial and anomalous e book interior the history of Christianity. the 1st 4 books are from Torah which replace into the holy scripture of Judaism. Islam and Christianity are branches of Judaism. Do you incredibly think of that the Apocryphas would desire to be ruled out basically via fact that's no longer element of the bible? what's the source of CCC? Is it additionally from the bible? you won't be able to easily choose via cultural ameliorations and you MTmorph provide you the choice to adapt to it or no longer. thinking the custom is thinking their ideals. we've our own comments. Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Adventists, and so on. Are basically Christian denominations with considerable ameliorations. do no longer replace our custom given which you're no longer a citizen of the Philippines. Why must you care? don't be biased. tell me, what are you? Are you a Protestant? via fact what you're doing is thinking the papal authority interior the Vatican. That makes you a protestant and yet you're utilising their components against them. How clever are you? Realistically speaking, faith is basically an phantasm of conjured trickery that bypasses the pathway to GOD.

Answer 3

The reverence for icons has been a question for a long time. There have often been iconoclasts, who believed that images amount to idols, while traditionalists preferred to keep them as symbols. It's sometimes been tough to find the balance between an icon, intended to help worship, and an idol. The Puritans went so far as to eliminate all symbols, while the Orthodox have traditionally been one of the heaviest users of icons.

Is an icon the same thing as an idol? I think it depends a lot on how it's used. In the New Testament, Christians were given permission to eat in temples to false gods, as long as they didn't cause trouble with their fellow believers (1 Corinthians 8:9-11). I believe a similar principle applies here: As long as they don't start to worship the images, there's nothing wrong with using symbols in our churches.

Answer 4

If you're bowing to statues or icons, or worshipping them or the saints they represent, you desperately need to get back into Sunday School or Bible Study.

The saints are not worshipped, and the statues/icons are little more than artistic portraits.

Would it be sinful for you to pull out your cell phone and a picture of your mother when something bad happens, call your mother, and ask her to pray with you in worship of the Holy God?

What's the difference then with the saints? To be dead in the body is to be alive in Christ, so the prohibition against praying to the dead doesn't jive here -- they are ALIVE (that's the whole point of Heaven, after all -- eternal life).

The Saints have struggled as humans and have made it. They serve only as tea lights pointing the way to the bright light of the Son.

[Not a catholic personally any longer, total atheist now, but... there's your answer]

Answer 5

There is more to the Bible than Exodus 20:

Images and Statues
Deut. 4:15 - from this verse, people say that since we saw "no form" of the Lord, we should not make graven images of Him.

Deut. 4:16 - of course, in early history Israel was forbidden to make images of God because God didn't yet reveal himself visibly "in the form of any figure."

Deut. 4:17-19 - hence, had the Israelites depicted God not yet revealed, they might be tempted to worship Him in the form of a beast, bird, reptile or fish, which was a common error of the times.

Exodus 3:2-3; Dan 7:9; Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32; Acts 2:3- later on, however, we see that God did reveal himself in visible form (as a dove, fire, etc).

Deut. 5:8 - God's commandment "thou shall not make a graven image" is entirely connected to the worship of false gods. God does not prohibit images to be used in worship, but He prohibits the images themselves to be worshiped.

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.

2 Kings 18:4 - it was only when the people began to worship the statue did they incur God's wrath, and the king destroyed it. The command prohibiting the use of graven images deals exclusively with the false worship of those images.

1 Chron. 28:18-19 - David gives Solomon the plan for the altar made of refined gold with a golden cherubim images. These images were used in the Jews' most solemn place of worship.

2 Chron. 3:7-14 - the house was lined with gold with elaborate cherubim carved in wood and overlaid with gold.

Ezek. 41:15 - Ezekiel describes graven images in the temple consisting of carved likenesses of cherubim. These are similar to the images of the angels and saints in many Catholic churches.

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

Answer 6

No right minded catholic believes that we have any idols in our churches, as that would be blasphemy against the teaching of the catholic church. It is (some) protestants who don't understand the nature of what an idol is that promulgates this myth. Why pretend to be a catholic? Isn't lying a sin?

Answer 7

Catholics don't bow to statues or don't pray to them... you should know that if your a catholic im agnostic and I know that. They use statues as other people have pictures of they're family they use the statues to remind them of the people the statues represent or think of them when they're praying. Exodus says to not bow and serve the idols or not announce them as your gods catholics don't do this. I'd advise you to read your catechism

Answer 8

Well, there is a lot of theory in this area. I don't practice anymore, however, my understanding has always been that they serve as reminders. It's a bit like having a picture of your mom around. When you genuflect in front of the altar you are actually genuflecting to the eucharist contained in the tabernacle not to any of the images or statues on the altar. When you pray before a statue you are not praying to the statue, but the spirit/deity/saint represented by the statue.

Answer 9

Look at a Catholic Bible version of the 10 Commandments and compare it with a Non-Catholic version. The Catholic church changed the 10 Commandments in their version to make it ok to have icons in the church. They did this in order to appeal to the pagans who were used to worshipping a statue. By adding the statues they were able to get hte pagans to more readily accept Catholicism.

Answer 10

Catholics do not bow down to statues or images. As someone before me said, they are used as reminders. They are not idols, again, they are just their to help point us back to God, not to worship.