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WHAT ARE IDOLS? How EXACTLY does God describe an IDOL? Are Catholics obeying God or are they practising idolatry? Below are scriptures describing exactly God's idea of what an IDOL LOOKS LIKE and His many warnings to those who turn to IDOLS. GOD IS INVISIBLE TO US AND HAS NOT ALLOWED US TO SEE HIM Deuteronomy 4:15 “TAKE CAREFUL HEED TO YOURSELVES, FOR YOU SAW NO FORM WHEN THE LORD SPOKE TO YOU AT HOREB OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, 16 LEST YOU ACT CORRUPTLY AND MAKE FOR YOURSELVES A CARVED IMAGE IN THE FORM OF ANY FIGURE: THE LIKENESS OF MALE OR FEMALE“ Exodus 20:4 “YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF AN IMAGE IN THE FORM OF ANYTHING IN HEAVEN ABOVE OR ON THE EARTH BENEATH OR IN THE WATERS BELOW.“ IMAGES AND STATUES OF MARY? Do you have images of anyone in heaven? Of Mary? God says NOT TO make an image of a female. Mary is female. God is describing for us what He has determined an idol to look like. The statues of Mary fit God's description of what constitutes an idol in God's mind. You could try and justify having images of Mary because she gave birth to Jesus but you would still be disobeying God. IF YOU LOVE GOD YOU WILL OBEY HIM AND KEEP HIS WORD JOHN 14: 23 “Jesus replied, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make Our home with him.“ God has limited our prayers to JESUS CHRIST. You can keep praying to Mary and the saints but according to what God says in these two verses, your prayers are not being heard by Mary or by God! Why? Go to God the way He has provided don't try to go to Him by some other way. This is what God says about what you are doing: John 10:1 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.“ JESUS IS THE DOOR John 10:7 “Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “ This is from the New Testament: 1 Thessalonians 1:9 “FOR THEY THEMSELVES REPORT WHAT KIND OF RECEPTION YOU GAVE US. THEY TELL HOW YOU TURNED TO GOD FROM IDOLS TO SERVE THE LIVING AND TRUE GOD.“ 1 CORINTHIANS 12:2 “You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols“ IDOLS COME WITH DEMONIC ENTITIES 2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 “WHAT AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.“ GOD WARNS THAT DEMONS ARE BEHIND IDOLS 1 CORINTHIANS 10:14 FLEE FROM IDOLATRY “...That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice THEY SACRIFICE TO DEMONS AND NOT TO GOD, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 YOU CANNOT DRINK THE CUP OF THE LORD AND THE CUP OF DEMONS; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? PAGANISM 1 CORINTHIANS 10:20 “No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, “ IDOLS GIVE DEMONS THE RIGHT TO ENTER YOUR LIFE AND HOME Demons cannot enter your home without a cause. Statues or images of Mary or other saints in your home give demons right of way to dwell in your home. DESTROY IDOLS and ask GOD TO FORGIVE YOU. It is not easy to get rid of demons. KING HEZEKIAH DESTROYED THE BRONZE SERPENT 2 Kings 18:4 “He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and BROKE IN PIECES THE BRONZE SERPENT THAT MOSES HAD MADE; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6 For he held fast to the Lord; HE DID NOT DEPART FROM FOLLOWING HIM, BUT KEPT HIS COMMANDMENTS, which the Lord had commanded Moses.“ THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN JEREMIAH 7:18 “The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.“ CARRYING A STATUE OF MARY FITS THIS VERSE WELL ISAIAH 46:7 “They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.“ HABAKKUK 2:18 “What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it--or an image, a TEACHER OF LIES? For its maker trusts in his own creation; HE MAKES IDOLS THAT CANNOT SPEAK.“ IDOLATERS ARE HELL BOUND 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 “Do you not know that THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, NOR IDOLATERS...“
