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-——You guys bow to and pray to your icons and ask them to perform miracles for you...To provide grace and even salvation for you...And we are not talking of icons of Jesus, are we...Why are you in denial?———

LOL!

I imagine you don’t live around many Catholics. When I tell Catholics here in MA about posts like this, they don’t believe it. We don’t experience this kind of silliness up here, except for the rare “Bible Chapel.”

Although for a few Catholics, it confirms stereotypes of “snakehandlers.”

Good luck with your conversion efforts, though. Your style is a sure winner.

Catholics, muzlims and hindus all praying to a graven image of Mary...

Catholics worshiping a graven image of Mary...

A pope worshiping a graven image of Mary...

Catholics worshiping an image of a pope...

I get a kick out of these bath tub Madonnas...

Deny all you want...Catholics thruout the world have provided us with massive amounts of evidence...

Lol! It truly is amazing. I have never seen how bad and consistent these stereotypes get on some of these threads before coming here many years ago. I left the church and came back. I prayed at all times. I know the Holy Spirit. I know how strong it is in our Church and some independent church's through Friends.

But when you take the traditional history away it just gets to be more cliched stereotype metaphors.

Just pick up ink on paper bible in English from a translation of another languages. Then let's call it solo scriptural . But we will say we read it only but the real reality is a lot of the ideas come from outside sources telling you the real meaning like books and other people. All the stereotypes come from someone outside. I know I would listen or read then go back to what said verse means not fully discovering what it meant on my own. So this fallacy of Bible alone is so wrong. Christ left a church not a book. The Church came first. The book is to be guide by the successive church given by Christ.

When you finally realize how it does not add up with out the true authority given by Christ.

I went to ordination of priests. The bishop explains the laying on of hands for two thousand years in the Church. Then all clergy from bishops to existing put hands on new priests then back again several times. Which is totally from scripture. No church does this from apostolic successive except Our Church and Orthodox branches.

ACTS 6: 5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6 They presented these men to the APOSTLES, Who Prayed and LAID Their HANDS on Them.

7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of PRIESTS became obedient to the faith.

This has been going on from the beginning. Goes right to the book of Acts. The Lampstand is still here.

Praise be to Jesus !!!