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Because perhaps they are worshipping what the statue or cross represents which is beyond the thing itself. When I see a cross it reminds me f Christ on the cross and takes me back to the core of the gospel.Some people have a custom of kneeling before statues, if that is not worship what it is?
Even if they are not worshiping, the bible says to not bow before other than God.
People can also worship all kinds of things, like important people, or sports, art, or themselves, or who knows what.
Just a couple of points:How about providing some quotes so we can get this show on the road? Present your evidence of what you have read, and then folks can agree/disagree.
Well you spoke of ignorance so I wondered how much of the early church you read. Your answer is very vague but it shows you have not really read the ancients.
No wonder you wanted to jump to the eighth century, you do not know the early church fathers.
I have almost completed the first three centuries, so when you catch up with me, we can have an informed conversation on that topic.
Just a couple of points:
1) This is not a complete list. I did not take the time to record them all.
2) Not a single early church father promoted idolatry or even hinted it was Christian practice.
''But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz, idolatry, over-confidence the arrogance of power. . .''
The epistle of Barnabas, chapter 20.
100A.D.
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Yup. No argument from me.No - But the Golden calf was.
They aren’t being worshipped. Good grief. No Catholic worships Mary or the Pope. That’s a myth.What about the Catholics is it wrong to worship and bow to the statue of the Virgin Mary or bow to the pope and call him father or call the priests father ?
Icons aren’t idols. They aren’t being worshipped.Just a couple of points:
1) This is not a complete list. I did not take the time to record them all.
2) Not a single early church father promoted idolatry or even hinted it was Christian practice.
''But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz, idolatry, over-confidence the arrogance of power. . .''
The epistle of Barnabas, chapter 20.
100A.D.
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Priest. No need for the quotation marks. It comes from a German word translated to English that means elder.Some Anglicans do, just as some Anglicans address their clergymen as "Father," use incense, and practice confession to a "priest." But their are evangelical Anglican churches that to not use icons, or do any of the things I have just mentioned.
Priest. No need for the quotation marks. It comes from a German word translated to English that means elder.
Thank you!It literally descends from the Greek word presbyteros "elder".
Greek presbyteros -> Latin presbyter -> Vulgar Latin prester
From Vulgar Latin it entered into the Germanic languages, this includes Anglo-Saxon (Old English) where it was preost, evolving from Old English through Middle English and into Modern English as priest.
The word "priest" has, in English, become a more catch-all term for "holy person" as such is used to describe the Jewish kohanim (the Levitical priests), and various officials of religious duties from across multiple religious traditions, such as various Pagan religions.
Language is weird.
-CryptoLutheran
Exodus 25:10-22
Notice how the Ark of the Covenant is constructed.
Was that idolatry? No.
I aggree.
And I'd like to add that we no longer have it with us.
According to legend, the Coptic Orthodox Church has the Ark of the Covenant, but I doubt it’s true. I really think it’s lost to history.I aggree.
And I'd like to add that we no longer have it with us.
Amen!We have a far greater Kapporet, a far greater Holy of Holies than what was instructed to Moses and given at Sinai.
We have Jesus Christ, and we enter into the Holy of Holies where we receive His own flesh and blood which was broken and shed for us.
-CryptoLutheran
How about providing some quotes so we can get this show on the road? Present your evidence of what you have read, and then folks can agree/disagree.
Icons aren’t idols because no one is worshipping them.Yes, I am arguing the affirmative and I will prove not only that idolatry was condemned by the ancient church but also it is as we see in the second commandment- made things that are venerated.
Now my opponents are going to get desperate, engage personal attacks and perhaps even deliberately tell lies. Why? Becuase they are here to defend their church. I am here to defend the faith, one true faith.
There has already been a bogus term introduced - “icon”. An icon is an idol. The people who attempt to make a (false) distinction between idol and icon are simply trying to justify their error and sin.
(Next witness)
Justin martyr.
Credited as the first Christian apologist defines idolatry as “set in shrines and called Gods”. So something that is made and venerated.
Approx 140 A.D.
First apology of Justin martyr - chapter 9.
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