Nope. Mary and the Saints are given "dulia" or honor, the Holy Trinity is given "Latria" or worship due only to God.
They are dead human beings. What does the Bible say about speaking to the dead? What can the dead do? What about John in Revelation, when he tried to pay homage to an angel? Did they not say something along this line, "not to do that because we are FELLOW believers"? What does the Bible say about venerating people? There is no excuse to praying to another human, dead or alive.
Depends on how you understand the commandments. We group "Thou shalt not make and bow down to a graven image" in with "Thou shalt have no other gods before me", or more simply put we merge the first and second commandments (according to the Protestant numbering scheme). The prohibition of graven images was directly tied into the prohibition against worshiping other gods. God even commanded for the temple and the Ark to be adorned with images. .
Depends on how I understand it or how you wish to understand it? What can a lump of clay offer me? Can it breath? Can it save me from my enemies? Perhaps this piece of wood will answer my prayers? There are way to many instances in the Bible telling us not to worship the creation, but worship the Creator. How then can I say to a blade of grass to be my god, when all the way, I can burn that grass at will? Is my god under my control?
Nope, Jesus was the one who granted that title and Mary is not divine.
Jeus said to Mary that she is the "Queen of Heaven"? This is what Scripture says about the queen of Heaven, she is another god. And her worship angers God. (Jer 7:18) What did God do to them who sweared their worship to this queen of Heaven in Jer 44?
Asked for intercession, big difference.
Come now, it is not so that the Catholic church teach that she has "motherly" control over her son and he must, because she is his mother, give in to her wish? Is not Jesus, the Son of God, the ONLY Mediataor between God and man? Shall we not then go to Him, who only is able to intercede?
Nope, we canonize those who have exhibited extreme Christian virtue in their lives.
St. Demetrios is the goddess Demeter
St. Aphrodite was the goddess Aphrodite
St Nicholas was the goddess Nick
St. Martin was the god Mars
Shall we continue with Catholic pagan holidays, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother and Father Day,
Halloween? Dare I mention the celebration of Mary's birthday? Palm Sunday? Mardi Gras? I will not say anything about the holiday of the Immucalate Conception of Mary!!!!! These have all been introduced to the Christian religion by the Harlot looking for new adoration to her mass.
Who or what that verse applies to is very open to interpretation.
It is applied to the harlot which still has some of God's people in her. She is indeed an idolateress who has played the harlot with God. How many gods does she intreat for the favor of God? Can a phantom god or goddress really take form to present itself before God? How many does she damn through the gods and godesses they bow down to and "venerate"?
It is fact that the Pope is considered the Vicar of Christ (not God) and that when he speaks ex cathedra he is protected by the Holy Spirit from teaching error in regards to matters of Faith and Morals.
 
These are Facts:
The Catholic Council of Trent in 1545 declared this:
We define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world.
Does not Scripture say that the whole world is under Satan's control?
 
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine stated this:
All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ...all the same names are applied to the Pope.
But, we are told that God has only one begotten Son.
 
In 1895 an article from the
Catholic National said this:
The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ,
but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.
Damn FOOLS.
 
The Gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII says this:
To believe that
our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical.
Again, Damn FOOLS!!!
Father A. Pereira, in speaking about the same gloss, said this:
It is quite certain that Popes have never disapproved or rejected this title "Lord God the Pope" for the passage in the gloss referred to appears in the edition of the Canon Law published in Rome by Gregory XIII.
Nothing else need to be added.
 
Papal documents also say this:
Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them
but God.
For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God....dissolves, not by human but rather by divine authority...
.I am in all and above all, so that God Himself and
I, the vicar of God, hath both one consistory, and
I am able to do almost all that God can do...wherefore, if those things that I do be said not to be done of man, but of God,
what do you make of me but God? Again, if prelates of the Church be called of Constantine for gods, I then being above all prelates, seem by this reason to be
above all gods (emphasis added). b
(Decretales Domini Gregori IX Translatione Episcoporum, ("On the Transference of Bishops"), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice(2nd Leipzig ed., 1881), Column 99; (Paris, 1612).)
The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth...by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one,
God himself on earth (emphasis added). (Quoted in the
New York Catechism.)
 
The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were
God, and the vicar of God...The Pope alone is called most holy...Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as
king of heaven and of earth and of hell. Moreover the superiority and the power of the Roman Pontiff by no means pertains only to heavenly things, but also earthly things, and to things under the earth, and even over the angels, whom he his greater than. So that if it were possible that the angels might err in the faith, or might think contrary to the faith,they could be judged and excommunicated by the Pope...the Pope is as it were
God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ,
chief of kings, having plenitude of power (emphasis added). (Lucius Ferraris, "Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility,"
Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica Volume V (Paris: J. P. Migne, 1858)).