Worshipers of Images

[Sue J Love]

An Original Work / February 7, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[MedicBravo]

Catholics would fall under this.
Their worship (ahem, cough cough) "veneration" of Mary or:
The Queen of Heaven and Jesus' secretary
would easily show Idolatry.

 

[Sue J Love]

Catholics would fall under this.
Their worship (ahem, cough cough) "veneration" of Mary or:
The Queen of Heaven and Jesus' secretary
would easily show Idolatry.

Not just Catholics. Anyone, protestants, too, who gives their undying loyalty and devotion and veneration to someone or something above or in place of God.

 

[MedicBravo]

Protestants do not have pictures of Jesus, Mary, or others of which we bow to, lick, stroke, caress, and even touch things we brought home to "endow with supernatural power" to bring home and worship.
NOT having images and idols is part of being a Protestant.

 

[Sue J Love]

Protestants do not have pictures of Jesus, Mary, or others of which we bow to, lick, stroke, caress, and even touch things we brought home to "endow with supernatural power" to bring home and worship.
NOT having images and idols is part of being a Protestant.

An idol is not just a statue or a picture of something or someone. An idol is anyone or anything to which we give our honor, loyalty, devotion, veneration, passion, heart, time, and belief in place of or above God and our worship of him as our only God (Lord, Master, Owner). Self and selfishness can be an idol, as can be pride and self-importance, or possessions, or intellect, or talent, or status, or titles or anything that gets our hearts and our passion in place of or above God and our loyalty and devotion to him as our only God. And protestants indeed have many idols. Self is an idol if we live to please self and not to please God in all that we are and do and say.

 

[MedicBravo]

Every group by your "definition" makes idols of something. To suggest we're the only ones that do is absurd.

 

[Sue J Love]

Every group by your "definition" makes idols of something. To suggest we're the only ones that do is absurd.

Where did I suggest that we're the only ones? I do not see what you are seeing. You stated, "NOT having images and idols is part of being a Protestant." So, I was merely pointing out that protestants have idols, too, not just the Catholics.

 

[MedicBravo]

I stated "every group" does so your note of "Protestants do." is irrelevant.
Does every Protestant do that? No.
Catholics ARE told to do many unBiblical things.