Crying Statue Draws Attention From Church
ORLANDO, FL (AP) -- A statue of the Virgin Mary at a Central Florida retail business has drawn attention from the church and the faithful after it apparently shed a black tear.
Worshippers have visited the store, asking for private prayers. The store has roped off the area where the statue is located. The owners have decided not to sell it.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/faith/news-article.aspx?storyid=80682
2007-04-26 06:07:36 · 13 answers · asked by Micah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
uhhhhhhhhhhh people fall for this boloney? was my first thought. My second is...isn't that going against god's very first of the ten commandments?
2007-04-26 06:12:28 · answer #1 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
How to make a weeping statue:
In his book "The Unexplained," Doctor Karl P.N. Shuker, mentions a paper by Dr. Luigi Garlaschelli from Pavia University published in Chemistry in Britain. It describes how to make a statue weep.
An except from the book is: "What is needed is a hollow statue made of a porous material such as plaster or ceramic. The icon must be glazed or painted with some sort of impermeable coating. If the statue is then filled up with a liquid (surreptitiously, through a tiny hole in the head, for example), the porous material will absorb it, but the glazing will stop it from flowing out. If the glazing, however, is imperceptibly scratched away on or around the eyes, tear-like drops will leak out, as if materialising from thin air. If the cavity behind the eyes is small enough, once all the liquid has dripped out there are virtually no traces left in the icon. When I put it to the test, this trick proved to be very satisfactory, baffling all onlookers."
2007-04-26 06:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
People are always searching for a sign that God exists.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a human being. She died and is now sleeping in heaven until the resurrection of the dead. Mary does not appear to anyone.
Things of this sort always make the news, but God speaks through his Word and his servants.
He does not use trickery or clever shows to draw mankind. People flock to bad TV screens, soap marked windows, pieces of toast and cloud formations when they think that God is speaking to them.
about Thomas, it is said:
"The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe."
If it takes all these silly incidents to prove Jesus is Lord, why don't people just believe Him in the first place and see what happens then?
2007-04-26 06:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evil spirits, but we haven't seen nothing yet.
This is what Satan will be doing!
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
2007-04-26 06:12:44 · answer #4 · answered by Theophilus 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ever notice how there is never a message with these crying statutes? You don't know if they are crying because they are happy or sad. You get no message other than, well, they are crying.
I've never seen any evidence in the Bible where God tried to communicate with someone ... He's usually pretty plain in what He says to us.
So my conclusion? A bunch of baloney lol
2007-04-26 06:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We should all be crying when a piece of ceramic gets more attention than feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and helping the poor.
2007-04-26 06:20:41 · answer #6 · answered by Johnny 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I Follow Jesus not Mary or her Statue. Someone needs to turn the drip system off. Its a hoax.
2007-04-26 06:14:53 · answer #7 · answered by lme 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hard to say if it is real or not.
I know this much. I remember one time that a statue of Jesus turned his head and looked at me. It kind of freaked me out.
2007-04-26 06:14:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My opinion is that very few of these are genuine. If any.
Jesus himself says not to go running off because you hear a rumor that he is here or there.
This same thing applies to miracle statues.
God hears us where ever we are. There is NO need to go running off to a miracle statue or an apparition tree.
2007-04-26 06:13:44 · answer #9 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like the store has hit on to a winner,but would they do such a thing Hmm!
2007-04-26 06:11:57 · answer #10 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋