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If Jesus is our sole Mediator then why pray to Mary and the Saints?


In 1 Timothy it says that Jesus is our sole mediator, yet we pray to Mary and the Saints. Is that going against the Bible? 1 Tim 2:5 reads as follows: “For there is one God, and there is one

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But I have seen a Catholic kiss the feet of a statue of Christ.


If I kiss the photograph of my mother, am I honoring a piece of cardboard? Or is it a tribute of love and respect offered to my mother? A Catholic reverences images and statues only in so far as they

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I have seen Catholics on their knees adoring and praying to statues in their Churches.


You have not. You have seen Catholics kneeling at prayer, and perhaps kneeling before an image of Christ, or of Our Lady. But if you concluded that they were praying to the statues that was not the fault of the

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God forbade us to worship plaster statues as Catholics do; yet you send missionaries to convert heathens who do the same thing.


God absolutely forbids us to worship wooden and stone statues, and Catholics are not so foolish as to commit so serious a sin. But Catholics do honor representations of those who are in heaven, just as we all honor our

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I have seen more idols in Catholic Churches than sincere Christians.


You have never seen an idol in a Catholic Church. An image is an idol only when it is the object of divine worship. You have seen images in Catholic Churches, but every Catholic knows that divine worship cannot be

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Why are Catholic Churches decorated with images and statues in direct violation of the second commandment?


The second commandment is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” Protestants, of course, call that the third commandment. But they are wrong in doing so, having taken that part of the first commandment

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