How do YOU know that image is not the mother of Jesus? Have you met her?
I would think we should show grace by speaking the truth in love it would seem to serve the gospel better rather than supporting idol worship in some sense or other which it seems you are..
Catholisicism is a dark place in need of the light of the gospel
It would not matter if it was an actual image and every one had a selfie with her. Today there would be nothing to meet, to the dust she returned and in her new spirit she like all believers is asleep waiting for her new incorruptible body..
The Catholic simply use images idols called teraphims to put a face on the Legion (we are many) when it comes up. Just as did the apostate Jews. Many make up the one god of this world as gods.
Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is
Legion: for we are many.
The Catholic Legion is growing picking up speed. There are over 3500 and rising patron saints now available with a idol image to match which worker of a familiar spirit a person is calling up. The one they call Mary is the assumed queen of heaven they call her the Queen of mercy.
Necromancy is the foundation Catholicism is built on.
We have PLENTY of images of Jesus. Is that also idolatry
I would add if we would use an image to put a face on Christ, the Holy Spirit to use when trying to commune with Christ in order to keep him separate from other gods which some call patron saints. We would be guilty of idol worship. It’s not having an image, its when people use them to put a face on lying spirits where the second commandment is shown to have been ignored.
God is not a man as us He has no form there is no need of making one up . We look to commune with our Father in heaven as the one manner we can commune with God.
It not our saints in heaven hallowed be the name of the Legion but is our Father(one) in heaven hallowed be His name alone.
So I would say have a picture of what a person thinks the Son of man might of looked like but do not use it to put a face on to help assure we have the proper spirit. We walk by faith, the unseen eternal. Not after any form .
And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is
no light in them.
Isa 8:19
WHERE IS THE GRACE?
WHERE IS THE FREEDOM IN CHRIST?
There is no grace coming from Christ in the Catholic religion .There is no finished work and is why purgatory and at one time Limbo was needed to finish the eternal work of suffering . This does despite to the grace of God and would be considered the kind of heresy that can be judged.
They have no freedom coming from Christ alone. They have another authority other than the word of God alone; it makes the word of God without effect and therefore no way to rightly divide....God's word
GRACE AND GRACE. Funny- You like to receive grace but you sure don't like giving it out.
Only God can give out saving grace by giving us a new spirit that will never die.
That’s the problem with those who seek after necromancy they have 3500 and rising disembodied workers of familiar spirits that can provide their kind of what they call grace (purgatory). A unknowm kind work of suffering for an a unknown amount of time. And are still recruiting new workers with familiar spirits . How many is enough?
TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH WILL BE REQUIRED.
Christ gave His all to him we owe. Sin had left a crimson stain He (not the legion 3,500 and rising patron saints) washed it white as snow. We owe nothing to the dead
If nothing is perceived as getting how much will be required