[terycarl]

Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. It’s one of those pesky Commandments — the one forbidding idolatry. Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 - “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them”

what an extraordinarily perverse interpretation of that passage!!!

[Syncro]

Prayer/veneration/worship to Mary actually is addressed in the Bible. It’s one of those pesky Commandments — the one forbidding idolatry.

Exodus 20:4: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 - “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them”

terycarl: "what an extraordinarily perverse interpretation of that passage!!!"

What a pesky God, imagine that not letting you bow down to a statue! Or worship a wafer!