Get this.
These catholics are bowing down before idols. Something Jesus expressly forbids.
Have you ever been to a Mass?
Get this.
These catholics are bowing down before idols. Something Jesus expressly forbids.
Have you ever been to a Mass?
Irrelevant. They bow down before idols. I just showed you the proof. They pray to Mary. That is idolatry. Prayer is worship, and they worship Mary.
And you follow the doctrine of John Nelson Darby.
I follow Gods word. I do not belong to any organized religion. They are constructs of man and fallible. I follow Jesus Christ, and Him only. Who do you follow?
So you dismiss the epistles of Paul?
Irrelevant. They bow down before idols. I just showed you the proof. They pray to Mary. That is idolatry. Prayer is worship, and they worship Mary.
I didn't say that. Paul was a servant of God.
Get this.
These catholics are bowing down before idols. Something Jesus expressly forbids.
Okay...let's start our "discussion" with this.
Does Jesus expressly forbid "bowing down before idols?"
Do you mind offering a citation...so I can consider it?
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.
Exodus 29:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
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.
Exodus 29:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
yet all of Christianity believes it was.....That wasn't Jesus speaking.
Interesting that the sons are condemned to the 4th generation. So where is salvation in that picture?
nothing there about salvation.....Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. 6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” 7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? 8 And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?
*Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Those laws were given to the Jewish people, no others
Matthew 5:19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
yet all of Christianity believes it was.....
about a thousand years in the future.....as Jesus reminded the Jews (Matthew 5*), the Ten Commandments was never there to give them salvation....
as YHWH said in the OT....
nothing there about salvation.....
There are lots of contradictions concerning the sins of the father.
https://carm.org/do-sons-bear-the-sins-of-their-fathers-or-not
There are lots of contradictions concerning the sins of the father.
https://carm.org/do-sons-bear-the-sins-of-their-fathers-or-not
only if you really want to be confused.......a rational person can see the difference......