What Protestants say: How Catholics should respond

Chapter 2: Statues in the Catholic church

By: Admin Jess

Section 1: Procession

Catholics doing procession.

Anti-Catholics be like:
Jeremiah 10:5 - Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried because they cannot walk.Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”

Catholic Response:
Joshua 6:3-4
"You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days. "Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Defense:
Jeremiah 10:5 seems like it is against the procession of false gods. But Joshua 6:3-4 proves procession to be Biblical. Now the argument depends on what is being processioned. Do Catholics procession false gods? Definitely no. We procession the statue of the saints including Mary and Jesus. Now are they false gods? No. What are considered as false gods in the Bible? They are those that are worshipped in replacement for the real God. Now do Catholics replace God with the saints? Technically no. It would be stupid for Catholics to worship the saints while worshipping the Real God.

If PROTESTANTS will only attend the HOLY MASS they will really know that the center of worship is God. Worship has never been offered to the saints but to God. Even in PRAISE and WORSHIP, it has always been offered to God alone. So why do Protestants insist that the saints are false gods when these includes the 12 apostles thus the words "St." Before their names. Example "St. Peter."? Simply because they will have nothing to use as a main weapon to attack the church.

Section 2: The wiping of handkerchieves to the statues of saints and Jesus.

Protestants be like: if you don't worship them why wipe your handkerchief on those statues.?

Catholic Response: Simply because God has used people and even statues as instruments of miracle.

Defense:
2 Kings 13:21
Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

Clearly, Elisha's bones touched the man's dead body and it came to life. Was it Elisha? No. It was God who performed a miracle thru Elisha's bones.

Acts 5:15
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

St. Peter's shadow healed the sick when it fell on them. Was it Peter's shadow? No. It was God who performed miracles thru St. Peter's shadow.

Numbers 21:9
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

Objection: Elishas's bones and Peter's shadow not statues. No involved handkerchief. Bronze snake was commanded by God. Your statues are not commanded by God.

Logical Response: The Bible does not have to have a perfect reference to fit a certain situation. When you claim that God healed you from cancer, do you have to find a verse that exactly visualizes Jesus healing a person with cancer to make the miracle valid? No of course. The point is, God performed miracles thru the bones of Elisha, St. Peter's shadow and the bronze snake. And he can use statues of saints the same way He did before.
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Original article by Admin Jeds