I wish people would stop politicizing the gospel. His Word has nothing to do with what ever political system you think is best. Jesus didn't die on the cross for communism, socialism, capitalism.
Anyway, the pope is a useless heretical false teacher. Roman catholicism is all about idols and serving the pope rather than Jesus Himself.
There does seem to be a lot of idol worship in Catholicism. Praying to Mary, the saints, and I believe people historically would even pray to deceased relatives or their kings. I think even the way crucifixes are treated is a bit like idol worship. Seems like a distortion of the teachings of Christ. Open to hearing from a resident Catholic to clear things up for me though.
Again misunderstanding of the terms. Graven Images applies to the Pagan religions of the time with the statue in the "temples" being the gods. Remember this is the belief in the one true God who sent his only son Jesus for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity. We as humans are sinners so the humans running the organization are too.
the way a non catholic pastor who broke open his concordenc, there were graven images, carved idols from various material, which represented the household gods before abraham set forth on his journey.
in doing so he was supposed to have no other gods before him, those graven(carved/whittled/molded) images were of lesser beings and were not to be worshipped because he was a jealous god.
I wish people would stop politicizing the gospel. His Word has nothing to do with what ever political system you think is best. Jesus didn't die on the cross for communism, socialism, capitalism.
Anyway, the pope is a useless heretical false teacher. Roman catholicism is all about idols and serving the pope rather than Jesus Himself.
There does seem to be a lot of idol worship in Catholicism. Praying to Mary, the saints, and I believe people historically would even pray to deceased relatives or their kings. I think even the way crucifixes are treated is a bit like idol worship. Seems like a distortion of the teachings of Christ. Open to hearing from a resident Catholic to clear things up for me though.
the whole part of "graven images" got tossed
Again misunderstanding of the terms. Graven Images applies to the Pagan religions of the time with the statue in the "temples" being the gods. Remember this is the belief in the one true God who sent his only son Jesus for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity. We as humans are sinners so the humans running the organization are too.
the way a non catholic pastor who broke open his concordenc, there were graven images, carved idols from various material, which represented the household gods before abraham set forth on his journey.
in doing so he was supposed to have no other gods before him, those graven(carved/whittled/molded) images were of lesser beings and were not to be worshipped because he was a jealous god.