Re: A graven image is............

On Sun, 04 May 2008 07:59:39 -0500, duke <duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: .....................a carving that is **wor****pped**.
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: Main Entry:graven image
: Function:noun 
: Etymology:graven, past participle of 1grave
: Date:14th century
: 
:  : an object of wor****p carved usually from wood or stone  : IDOL
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: duke, American-American
: *****
: "The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
: Pope Paul VI
: *****

Exodus 20:4 KJVR  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:  

The Catholic church unfortunately makes graven images of
everything they imagine to be in heaven (dead saints, angels and
Mary), and put those graven images all over every church and
place of wor****p.

They remove this as one of God's 10 commandments and instead
claim the last two commandments are two specific version of "thou
shalt not covet".

http://www.marianland.com/tencommandments/ten_commandments.html

Exodus 20:5 KJVR  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;

The Catholic church unfortunately teaches their followers to bow
down and pray to these images of the dead saints, angels, and
Mary. Mary, who was yet another sinner that needed the grace of
Jesus Christ to save her from her sins.

Luke 1:46-47 KJVR  And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47  And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.

When a religion clearly violates God's Word, it's time to get out
of that religion and find one that's truly wor****pping God, not
their own version of a god they've created by changing what He
has commanded of us.

I know there are many people in the Catholic religion who have a
zeal for God, but unfortunately, just like God's Word tells us,
their zeal is not of knowledge of who God really is, but instead
who they want to believe, or have allowed themselves to currently
be fooled into believing He is.

Romans 10:2-3 KJVR  For I bear them record that they have a zeal
of God, but not according to knowledge.  3  For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the
righteousness of God.