Why do protestants think catholics worship mary and statues, is there something wrong with them? - Full text of "Why do Protestants not invoke the virgin?" - hzgn.com

I am a catholic and i do not worship mary, why don't one of you protestant people actually ask a catholic if they do instead of spreading those nasty rumors, it only makes u people look like idiots!

Many Catholics acknowledge that they pray to Mary. That's how some of the "rumors" get started. I know a Catholic girl who tells me she has never prayed to God or to Jesus, but always to Mary.

yeah ive heard that too. i think its just something that people make up to like...point a finger. catholics and protestants have been fighting for a VERY long time...so its just one of those things, but i know catholics dont really worship Mary. altho....getting all mad about it kinda furthers the tension between the two groups....fyi

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What does the first AND second commandment say?
Ex.20:1-5
Why does praying to Mary nullify it? Matt. 5: 17, 18, 19.
John 10: 35.

As a "protestant" I can't say I have ever told anyone that Catholics worship Mary, however I have heard many Catholics say that they pray to Mary (and other "saints") and that they also go to their priest for absolution of sins. With no disrespect to those of the Catholic faith, this is not biblical. There is ONE mediator between God and man and that is Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5). While we should be confessing our sins to each other and praying for each other, there is only ONE person who died on the cross for our sins, and that is Jesus Christ. He is the only one who hears our prayers and can forgive us for them. Mary was an ordinary woman who was a sinner just like everyone else (in fact, she gave a sin offering in the Bible). God chose her to have Jesus because both she and Joseph were born in the lineage of King David, which makes Jesus the rightful king of the Jews.

they don't under stand the whole process no catholics worship Mary the just ask her for help with certain things. like all the other saints. we have patron saints for every thing. to find lost things, to help our academics, the safety of firefighters and police men we don't worship any of those. God just gave them a special gift and it makes a pray a little more personal and praying to those patron saints really helps to. i once lost a very valuable earring i found it in a place that i would of never expected and i had been praying for a week. i love being catholic. it's that only religion that makes sense to me. you should try going to a Catholic conference. i go to "The Catholic Family Conference" every summer google it going to this makes me stronger in my faith each year. i hope this helped

Well I'm a Christian and I have a pastor who used to be Catholic. When he became Baptist then his parents didn't like it. I don't know why they got mad but they did. Of course I don't think Catholics are idol worshipers. But, the question is what do Catholics think of Baptists?

You do worship Mary.
What is worship? Singing praises, praying to, calling someone holy (bible says God alone is holy, mary is NOT)
God said calling someone Queen of heaven was idol worship!
Jeremiah 7:17-19
17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. 19 But am I the one they are provoking? declares the LORD. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?

Look at this web site, what is the Pope doing as he bows down to the "gaven image" of Mary?
This is worship

I dunno, it's pretty funny since Protestants and Catholics BOTH pray to a man called Jesus that they've turned into God. LOL It's like the pot calling the kettle black, both are pagan in that respect and idolators. and neither has the right to point fingers at the other.

Maybe it is because Catholics do pray to Mary and other Saints and ask for their intercession for them with the Lord.
Saying Hail Marys to me is a form of worshiping and kneeling before a statue of Mary or another Saint is also. The 10 commandments strickly forbids this.To me it is worshiping a graven image just like when in the bible they bowed before the golden calf. I respect Mary as Jesus's mother and also the Saints for the lives they lead but I don't pray to them or kneel before statues of them.

typical for them to spread lies against unlike-minded people

Perhaps because they do not see from many Catholics the difference between worship and respect.
To God's glory may you receive there today a large pleasant reward!!!

Mary, statues, god - they're all fake so what does it matter even if you do worship mary?

I am neither Catholic, Protestant, or Mormon, or Orthodox, nor do I belong any so-called domination. I am a member of the Lord's church, church of Christ. In the church, we wear the name of Christian only.

To Catholics: Praying to Mary or the other saints is wrong, we are only to pray to God. I don't know how y'all can call your church, the one and only true church. Since y'all do a lot of stuff that is unbiblical.

as far as mary goes, maybe it's because of all that 'mother of God' nonsense...if someone really WAS the mother of God, wouldn't it make sense to worship her? as for the statues, maybe it's all that 'stations of the cross' stuff, and the fact that so many catholic churches (at least, the ones i've been in) seem to be crawling with statues...

Maybe Protestants misunderstand because they see a Catholic kneeling before a statue and think that is worship, when for the Catholic it is merely a posture of prayer.

You must be patient with those of different denominations because many have been taught these misconceptions from the pulpit at church. I know - I have lots of Protestant friends, and even dated a few.

And I have heard MANY pastors teach errors about Catholicism to their congregations. But these pastors are well-meaning and have the people's interests at heart.

Just simply explain to a Protestant that we do not worship saints. We ask them to pray for us and put our requests in their hands since they are in Heaven and are so close to God. Scripture calls them "a great cloud of witnesses" that are watching us run our spiritual race.

We can ask the saints (our friends in Heaven) to pray for us just as we ask our friends on Earth to pray for us.

I am a Roman Catholic, too, by the way.

As a former Catholic, I have to tell you in all honesty I was worshipping Mary. I found her much more spiritually inspiring than her son. But I don't think there should be anything wrong with that. Catholics also worship saints (worshipping is defined by having an image with which someone shows devotion to).

calling people "idiots" makes you no better than protestants. Kindness and prayer is the way to show our seperated brothers and sisters in Christ the truth about the Holy Catholic Church.

Forget it sister - they think they know better than we do what we do and do not believe.

AND - rephrase - because it's definitely not all Protestants, and I would say even that it's limited more to fundamentalists and 'born-again' non-denominational folks.

Julia - learn how to spell, dear.

Maybe it's because of the prayers said to statues of the Virgin Mary... I've seen plenty of Catholics bowed in prayer before statues of Mary, which has always made me believe, they worship Mary....