Why can't Catholics grasp this?
>>18266133Because Protestants can't either. They worship skin color, Israel, and money.
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This, /his/, is literally THE least retarded prottie.
>>18266133This commandment was for the Jews who worshipped that golden bull statue.
>>18266168God would appear in between the cherubs. They weren't worshipping the arc, they were worshipping God. The presence of God does not dwell in your ceramic figurines that have set up in on your altar.
Protestants do not understand that 'to worship' means 'to place at the top of all you value'.To 'make an idol' of something is to place *anything at all other than God* in that place of highest value.The Catholic position is that God and only God should be in that spot and putting anything else there is sin.
>>18266133>muh Catholics are idolatersThis objection by protestants is mainly due to the fact that they cannot distinguish between worship and lesser forms of veneration. David bowed in front of the ark in Psalm 99:5, Joshua did the same in Joshua 7:6. God commands the use of icons in 1 Kings 6:29, even statues in Exodus 25:18-19. The use of graven images is forbidden, there is a line between non-graven and graven images.So the veneration offered to those represented by images is not idolatrous. Asking for prayers from saints that can hear you is perfectly fine, and so is the use of images during worship.
>>18266138HOLY BASED
>>18266202>They weren't worshipping the arc, they were worshipping God.Exactly the same is true with icons and statues of saints. They're not being worshipped.>The presence of God does not dwell in your ceramic figurines that have set up in on your altar.We believe that God's presence is at Mass.
>>18266133they claim to be using icons, not images
>>18266307>Exactly the same is true with icons and statues of saints. They're not being worshipped.Even if that were true, the commandment of God says you cannot worship them OR bow down to them and catholic most certainly bow down and kneel before these idols.
>>18266307You kneel to them and pray to them. That is worship. A Christian's knees bend only for God. You are no Christian. You're a heathen idolator.
