Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Mary-hailers are fond of telling various stories about their crucifix idols with the hands broken off and inscriptions like "I have no hands but yours."



They even like to quote Teresa of Ávila, demon-possessed Spanish "saint," as saying,

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

Those teachings turn Scripture on its head. They suggest that more things are possible with human beings than with God, whereas Jesus (the real Jesus, not the Romanist wafer god) said,

Matt. 19:26: But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

They also suggest that God depends on our mercy, when we are utterly dependent on His:

Matt. 6:31-32: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

The death-cookie-munchers claim to worship Jesus, when in reality they exalt themselves over Him.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

That whole "no body but yours" line always struck me as an argument for atheism. It's like saying that Jesus is no more real than the man on the moon, or Bozo the Clown.

[Russell Holbeck]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

Hello Pastor Isaac Peters.

Thank you for the Bible verses I already had one marked and I marked the other one.

I do not understand why people take the arms off of statues. I was in France and went to a museum and the museum guide said next we will see one of the most beautiful statues in the world and he pointed to this:



I do not think amputees are beautiful. Also when you walk around back you can see the top of her bottom. Sometimes that happens to me and the colored girl who works for me says oh daddy I can see your coin slot even though I am not her father.

Thank you.

Rusty

P.S. What do the Catholics think about the 2nd Commandment.

[Father Peter Rast]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

Hi Rusty,

What you separated brethren consider to be the Second Commandment, we Catholics consider to be part of the First Commandment. We believe that it prohibits idolatry but that the veneration of images in the Catholic Church does not constitute idolatry. Here is an explanation of the difference.

The Catholic Encyclopedia: Idolatry

Others gave Divine honours not to the images but to the creatures which they represented. Both are hinted at by the Apostle (Romans 1:23-25), who says of the first: "They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed beasts and of creeping things"; and of the second: "They worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator". These worshippers of creatures were of three kinds. Some held that certain men were gods, and these they honoured through their statues, e.g., Jupiter and Mercury.

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An essential difference exists between idolatry and the veneration of images practised in the Catholic Church, viz., that while the idolater credits the image he reverences with Divinity or Divine powers, the Catholic knows "that in images there is no divinity or virtue on account of which they are to be worshipped, that no petitions can be addressed to them, and that no trust is to be placed in them. . . that the honour which is given to them is referred to the objects (prototypa) which they represent, so that through the images which we kiss, and before which we uncover our heads and kneel, we adore Christ and venerate the Saints whose likenesses they are" (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXV, "de invocatione Sanctorum").

As you can see, the two are completely different.

Yours in Christ,

Father Pete

[Paragon of virtue]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

That whole "no body but yours" line always struck me as an argument for atheism. It's like saying that Jesus is no more real than the man on the moon, or Bozo the Clown.

I never looked at it that way before, but of course you are right. It's putting too much emphasis on our own importance at any rate. The good Lord can use me any way He likes, that's my expected, reasonable and due service to Him, but to say He needs me to accomplish anything is ridiculous.

[Basilissa]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

Hi Rusty,

What you separated brethren consider to be the Second Commandment, we Catholics consider to be part of the First Commandment. We believe that it prohibits idolatry but that the veneration of images in the Catholic Church does not constitute idolatry. Here is an explanation of the difference.

The Catholic Encyclopedia: IdolatryAs you can see, the two are completely different.

Your statement proves (once again) that Catholics aren't even Christians.

Let's take a look at the Bible:

Exodus 20:4-5
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.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Now look at this Catholic:



He is not only bowing, but kneeling before and praying to a man made "likeness" of a woman (something "that is in the earth beneath")!

Whether you see the verses above as a separate 2nd Commandment (as real Christians do), or shovel/hide it together with the 1st Commandment, and then change the numbering of all of the subsequent Commandments, and then artificially divide the 10th Commandment into two (as fake Christians/Catholics do), it doesn't change the fact that this stuff is still in the Bible!

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Catholics mock Divine omnipotence, exalt themselves over Christ.

You just need the Romanist lowerarchy to tell you how to ignore rewrite "interpret" those parts.