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Contradictions In Catholicism |
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I grew up Baptist. Recently, I had a conversation with a Catholic about the ten commandments. Specifically the commandment of idolatry. To Catholics, turning once living and flawed human beings into “Saints” after their death to commemorate the good deeds of that person’s life is considered acceptable.
From my Baptist point of view, I see several things wrong with this. First of, the person you call a “Saint” was alive once. They grew up, they disobeyed their parents, did something wrong knowingly or not. They sinned at some point. It can’t be helped, we all do, it’s in our nature. All humans are born with the mark of sin carried from the original biblical humans, Adam and Eve. Even before you do any sinning you’re already stained from the moment you’re born, or actually even before that. It’s not something you can escape by doing good things all your life.
So how are you going to tell me that you’re calling a regular old do-gooder human being a “Saint”?! Let me make sure the meaning of the word “Saint” is clear. To be a “Saint” means to be “a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and typically regarded as being in heaven after death.” Source The issue with this is that you called that regular old do-gooder human “Holy”. Now, “Holy” means to be “exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness”. Source Therefor the word “Holy” can only be applied to God.
Just because you spend your life doing good things does not give you a freepass to bypass your nature and wipe away your flaws and sins like they never existed. You were marked in the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, long before you were even born. That mark will never go away no matter how hard you try to atone for it or how deep your level of denial goes.
That being said, how are you going to make a picture or statue of said “Saint” person, who is also a flawed sinner just like you, and hang it/set it up in your church or house and then worship/pray to it?! That’s positively blasphemous and it is called “Idolatry”. That is a sin and also happens to be one of the ten commandments.
[KJV] Exodus 20:3-20:6 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 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; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
How is it that the very church and those who lead it will allow this level of ignorance among its congregation regarding the commandments of the very God they supposedly worship? How can they call themselves Christians when being Christian means to follow the teachings of, worship, and believe in Jesus Christ as your lord and savior? And they don’t even bother to learn about said savior?! What does he want from you? What are his likes and dislikes? What makes him angry? It’s all there within the pages of the Bible, sitting in the back of each bench, kneeler and podium… being ignored by every Catholic as they erroneously and hypocritically call themselves “Christians”.
Bunny Elf · Wed Jul 19, 2017 @ 10:00pm · 2 Comments |
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