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.
Roman Catholic and Islamic persecution is what caused Orthodox Christians to flee Constantinople and preserve the Bible in its present form as the Masoretic Hebrew Old Testament and Textus Receptus New Testament, so I suppose you're right about that, just not in the way you imagined.
The Roman Catholic versions of the Bible are a preservation of the Alexandrian Bible. The Old Testament was translated from Hebrew to classical Greek and the New Testament was translated from Koine Greek into classical Greek. Verses were altered to change the meaning.
Putting a crown on a statue is pure idolatry according to the Bible. You can call it veneration or worship, but it's a violation of the second commandment in any case. Of course, the Catholics changed the commandments as well and removed that commandment...
And yet, as Catholics watched the monument being removed from the judicial building in Alabama, they may have observed in a close-up shot of the commandments that they were not the same ten nor the numerical arrangement they had learned in childhood. The courthouse rendition read:
I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.
Honor thy father and thy mother.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
Thou shalt not covet.
Whereas the Catechism’s traditional presentation of the commandments for memorization are:
I am the Lord your God: You shall not have strange Gods before me.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
Honor your father and mother.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
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.
Roman Catholic and Islamic persecution is what caused Orthodox Christians to flee Constantinople and preserve the Bible in its present form as the Masoretic Hebrew Old Testament and Textus Receptus New Testament, so I suppose you're right about that, just not in the way you imagined.
The Roman Catholic versions of the Bible are a preservation of the Alexandrian Bible. The Old Testament was translated from Hebrew to classical Greek and the New Testament was translated from Koine Greek into classical Greek. Verses were altered to change the meaning.
Putting a crown on a statue is pure idolatry according to the Bible. You can call it veneration or worship, but it's a violation of the second commandment in any case. Of course, the Catholics changed the commandments as well and removed that commandment...
And yet, as Catholics watched the monument being removed from the judicial building in Alabama, they may have observed in a close-up shot of the commandments that they were not the same ten nor the numerical arrangement they had learned in childhood. The courthouse rendition read:
Whereas the Catechism’s traditional presentation of the commandments for memorization are:
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-true-ten-commandments
Can't have that pesky commandment about the graven images getting in the way of our Mary veneration now, can we?
You’re wrong, and revelling in your error. I can’t help you. God bless you and keep you.