Posted on 06/21/2013 4:31:51 AM PDT by Colofornian
OOOOPS!
BAD dreams!!
Except that FR MORMONs will complain that those who USED to 'be in the culture' no longer have ANY validity to speak about the things they know, were taught, and/or lived.
People view the Cross and remember Jesus’ Sacrifice, it’s hard if you are a mormon to wear the garden around your neck.
Maybe you could have asked him why he wears so called “holy underwear”.
I have had my mormon family tell me it is sick, I have a necklace with a little silver cross.
Very simple and easy way to put the facts.
Thanks
And I suppose each Christmas, every time you drive by a house or business with a nativity scene or creche, you stop, ring the doorbell or enter the business if open, and question the owners about the meanings of these symbols...and start accusing them of engaging in "idolatry" eh?
Are you consistent then with these types of treatment toward such symbols?
If not, then why have you -- and Mormons -- chosen to single out the cross for this type of treatment? What then is so offensive to you -- and to Mormons -- about the cross?
I mean, do Mormons take offense to every mention of a crib in a Christmas carol -- or nativities, living or otherwise -- that depict the Christ child?
Although I am not Catholic, I know none that worship Mary’s image, revering is not worship.
Wearing a Cross is not worship, it is a simple of remembrance.
I am not sure why you apparently see them as the same.
Idols were objects that are/were worshiped as a god, not reminders.
One of my mormon uncles a former bishop, told me that mormons abandoned the cross because they didn’t want people to think they were Christians.
All one has to do is read mormon teaches and historical writings (of theirs) to see the hostility of mormons towards Christians/Catholics.
Now Christian/Catholic hostility to the Cross is just silly, never was, never will be, I guess its away to validate mormon hostility.
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I’m not familiar with that ring. What’s the symbol about? Ase they letters — a little oddly shaped -— like “CPT”?
Mrs. I had the opportunity to visit Rome two years ago, I saw some of the most beautiful wall paintings, statues and tapestry ever, some would take your breath away.
(I is a shame we have seemed to have lost that art form)
A very nice young man was pointing this or that out and made a really good point, something I am sure I should have thought about, all of these art forms representing the Glory of God, the Story of Creation, The Bible in general because most people could not read.
So the teachers of the time had to use visual means to teach the Scriptures, to make them come alive so to speak.
Which is why these church building Catholic/Christian are covered with art.....I thought yep he is probably right.
Because I cann’t spell the “P” word without auto correct changing it into something which makes no sense.
And some people difference them, mormonism does as well, although they (mormons) refer to them both disparagingly.
okay; fair ‘nuf
To be sure, the cross was not widely used as a symbol during the first centuries, because it was shameful at the time. But in the 4th century, it became the public symbol of Christianity. The most usual pictorical representation of Jesus in graves was as the good shepherd and him as a beardless young man. As to three dimensional representations, there was always some objection, but this only boiled over into controversy in the 8th century in the iconoclast movement, after the Emperors, in an effort perhaps as gesture to rebut the Muslim criticism of Christian polytheism and its pagan’ practices.
Idols were not regarded as gods but as sacred objects, little homes for the gods. Making an idol was, however, a way of delimiting a god, describing his attributes ,making him physically present by invoking his name. The god of the Jews was noniconic not only in that he could not be properly represented but not even named. Nonetheless, He was localized in the people of Israel and even physically in the tent Tabernacle and in the Temple, where the Ark was his throne.
Kind of neat design.
I was going by this:
i·dol
object worshiped as god: something that is worshiped as a god, e.g. a statue or carved image
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