Here's a link below to the Catholic
Catechism used for this chart...
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/part3_2.html
Please notice that they've removed the 2nd
commandment which forbids anyone from “bowing” to any graven image. It's
clearly obvious that the Catholic Church is trying to hide their sin of
idolatry. There is NO Biblical teaching to honor Mary nor the saints by
bowing to them. God strictly forbids bowing to the likeness of anyone or
anything in Heaven or earth. Exodus 20:4,5, “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:
Thou SHALT NOT BOW DOWN thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy
God am a jealous God.”
In the Catholic Catechism (part 3) you'll read
the following words of blasphemy...
2132 The Christian veneration of images is
not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the
honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever
venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it."[70] The honor
paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due
to God alone:
That is what Catholic men teach; but it's not
what God says, “THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM.”
First of all, not bowing to a graven image is
the 2nd command, not the first. The evil men who wrote the preceding Catholic
Catechism deceitfully split the 10th commandment into two to make up for the
missing 2nd commandment. Why are there two commandments telling us not to
covet? It seems mighty strange don't you think? It's obvious what the
Devil
has done here. You can't just eliminate the 2nd Commandment!
Secondly, the quoted passage I have given you from the
Catholic Catechism is blasphemy. God clearly warns us in Exodus 20:4-5 NOT to make unto
ourselves ANY graven images.
Catholics attempt to justify their idolatry by
comparing what they do to the brazen serpent in the Wilderness in Moses'
time. The children of Israel had murmured (complained) so much that God
decided to judge them with fiery serpents. 16,000 Israelites had already
died and Moses pleaded with the Lord to spare Israel. God told Moses to
fabricate a serpent made of brass, to hold it up before the Jews, and tell
them to look unto the serpent to live. That serpent symbolized Jesus Christ,
Who became as sin to save us.
This is why we read in John 3:14-15, "And
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have eternal life." Carefully notice that the brazen serpent was God's idea, not Moses. God never told us ANYWHERE in the Word of God to make a statue of anyone
nor
anything. The Israelites were instructed to “look” to the serpent (which
pictured Christ) so they could live. The people were NOT instructed to bow, honor,
nor
pray to the brazen serpent (statue).
It is sinful for Catholics to attempt to
justify their idolatry by taking the incident of the brazen serpent out of
context. The entire focus of the brazen serpent is to LOOK TO JESUS TO LIVE.
Isaiah 45:22, " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else." It is a sin to look to Mary.
The Catholics can devilishly call their idolatry
"Respectful Veneration" if they want to, but it's a direct violation of the
2nd Commandment (which they don't have in Catholicism). Anything can be
justified if one is willing to twist the truth far enough. The FACT of the
matter is that neither Jesus, nor any of the Apostles, elevated Mary in any
capacity. Yet Catholics have created a monstrosity of adoration toward Mary,
refusing to obey the Scriptures. Jesus Christ is magnified in the Word of
God, not Mary. A standard Rosary contains 53 Hail Marys. It is sinful
idolatry.
The next time you go to Mass, watch the priest
when he prays and you will see that every single word he speaks is read from
a piece of paper. There is no heartfelt sincerity or communication with God.
It is all formalized religion, preplanned and prewritten, and God is not
worshipped from men's hearts as He should be. Matthew 15:7,8, "Ye
hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth
nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their
heart is far from me."
Prayer should NEVER be read from a piece of
paper, which is really not prayer at all. Catholics recite the SAME dead
words over and over and over. I believe most Catholic people are
sincere—hearing the pretty music and bells, seeing the beauty of religion
and a magnificent worship building, hearing about Jesus' death and
resurrection—but what they fail to realize is that Catholicism officially
teaches that a person MUST do good works, get water baptized, go to Mass,
keep all the Seven Sacraments, and become a member of the Catholic Church in
order to get to Heaven.
The Word of God teaches you just need to acknowledge
your guilt of sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be forgiven. There
is NO religion involved, which is very difficult for some people to grasp,
because they were brought up in a religious family. The only work
which we must do to be saved is to believe on Christ, John 6:29, “Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him
whom he hath sent.” Salvation is not found in ANY religion; but in a
Person—the Lord Jesus Christ!
Note: The teaching not to bow to statues is
found
BURIED in the Catholic Catechism, but it's avoided like the Black
Plague, and is not mentioned when priests or Catholic speakers recite the
Ten Commandments. It is avoided for good reason—because it is an indictment
against their idolatry! Catholics DO bow to all manner of statues. If you
ask any Catholic to quote the Ten Commandments to you, they'll never mention
anything about not bowing to statues or idols (because that's the heart of
their religious). They bow to Mary. They bow to Our Lady Of Fatima. They bow
to idols of patron saints at home.
“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: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor
serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God...”
—Exodus 20:4,5
Do you
see how evil and sneaky the Vatican is? They totally removed the 2nd
Commandment from the Bible forbidding BOWING to statues and idols.
