So Babylonians were not worshipping Mary. They were worshipping a particular deity which requires human sacrifice as worship.
Catholics do not worship Ishtar. Or Mary. Catholics accept the definition of worship that is what was forbidden Ishtar: sacrifice of any kind. That is the definition of worship. Praise is not worship. Praise and verbal communication is not worship. Praise can be part of worship but is not worship by itself. Singing about Mary, an actual woman who conceived the Son of God Incarnate, honoring her, is not worship since worship is sacrifice. This is what you are choosing to be incapable of understanding, to your own detriment and to the detriment of your ability to reason.
Ishtar is not Mary. Mary is not worshipped by Catholics. If you refuse to not accept that different words have different meanings, you have chosen stupidity and I cannot help you understand.
I understand the Roman Catholics have a definition of words based on their traditions, and those definitions differ from the Biblical definitions.
You call it veneration when you sing a hymn to a statue and crown it with roses. The Bible calls it idolatry and calls the statue a graven image.
And when Mary has the same 8-pointed star as Ishtar does in Roman Catholic paintings and statues, you have no explanation of what that star represents other than the goddess Ishtar.
No, the Catholic Church, in fact, is the reason that the Bible exists in its present form. Constantine ordered it translated into the Septuagint and the rest is history. YOUR interpretation of the bible as having materialized out of thin air in spite of the Church is utter nonsense and that idea is an impediment to your ability to have charity for your fellow members of the body of Christ, such as myself. You are obsessed, and obsessed with tearing down the Church because you misunderstand the teachings.
No one is worshipping the statue. Putting a crown on a statue is symbolic of the respect we give to the mother of God Incarnate.
Worship is defined in the old testament and new as sacrifice. GOD is the one who gives us the definition. You are wrong.
“Just as the babylonians did”
When did the babylonians refer to Mary? I was under the impression hat she wasn’t born until a millennia or so later.
Ishtar. Now you're arguing semantics. I've already covered this in another post on this thread...
No, Mary wasn’t born yet.
So Babylonians were not worshipping Mary. They were worshipping a particular deity which requires human sacrifice as worship.
Catholics do not worship Ishtar. Or Mary. Catholics accept the definition of worship that is what was forbidden Ishtar: sacrifice of any kind. That is the definition of worship. Praise is not worship. Praise and verbal communication is not worship. Praise can be part of worship but is not worship by itself. Singing about Mary, an actual woman who conceived the Son of God Incarnate, honoring her, is not worship since worship is sacrifice. This is what you are choosing to be incapable of understanding, to your own detriment and to the detriment of your ability to reason.
Ishtar is not Mary. Mary is not worshipped by Catholics. If you refuse to not accept that different words have different meanings, you have chosen stupidity and I cannot help you understand.
I understand the Roman Catholics have a definition of words based on their traditions, and those definitions differ from the Biblical definitions.
You call it veneration when you sing a hymn to a statue and crown it with roses. The Bible calls it idolatry and calls the statue a graven image.
And when Mary has the same 8-pointed star as Ishtar does in Roman Catholic paintings and statues, you have no explanation of what that star represents other than the goddess Ishtar.
No, the Catholic Church, in fact, is the reason that the Bible exists in its present form. Constantine ordered it translated into the Septuagint and the rest is history. YOUR interpretation of the bible as having materialized out of thin air in spite of the Church is utter nonsense and that idea is an impediment to your ability to have charity for your fellow members of the body of Christ, such as myself. You are obsessed, and obsessed with tearing down the Church because you misunderstand the teachings.
No one is worshipping the statue. Putting a crown on a statue is symbolic of the respect we give to the mother of God Incarnate.
Worship is defined in the old testament and new as sacrifice. GOD is the one who gives us the definition. You are wrong.