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Beloved:
Darren

That is why I posted the exact commandment   Exodos 20 :4&5

I do not understand exactly what you are asking?

Who prays to a statue... ::)and in their right mind expects anything....   :oyes
yes they are praying to the image but the prayer (spiritual) is being sent to that which it represents...  Both are wrong

We are to look to what we are doing and not so much at what others are doing...if you do then you will start judging them ....

Darren they are blind and deaf and dumb....until God opens their eyes they will continue to do this....

We on the other hand are to study the word and understand what GOD is showing to each of us

beloved

Falconn003:

--- Quote from: EKnight on November 16, 2008, 10:10:22 AM ---I was reading some of Ray's responses to questions of the trinity.  He speaks of Christ being conceived by the Holy Spirit.  This got me thinking about Mary's role in the birth of Christ.

Why did God need to have Christ born into this world in the conventional way?  Why couldn't He have created the second Adam as the first Adam?  Would his Apostles and disciples not have believed in Christ had he not been "born"?  Was God trying to show us that Christ was no different than we are (born of the flesh)?

And why Mary?  She was hand-picked by God.  Was there something significant about her as opposed to any other woman at that time? Or was this a random choosing?

Just curious.

Eileen

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If i am not mistaken Ray states Jesus is BEGOTTEN not concieved,,, but am checking.

Rodger

winner08:
thanks beloved. I got it.

EKnight:
Rodger,

Excerpt from email #18 :

http://bible-truths.com/email18.htm#agree

Jesus Christ was "conceived by THE HOLY SPIRIT."  Now then, whose Son is Jesus Christ?  Is he "The Son of the Holy Spirit?"  NO?  And why not?  Since when is the man who "conceives" a child with a women, no longer the "father" when the child is born?  Do you know of any such unscientific nonsense, Robbins?  Every little school boy in the street knows that the man who caused his mother to conceive IS HIS FATHER, not some other man or some other ghostly person.  The reason that Jesus is the "Son of the FATHER" (I1 John 3)   The reason little Johnny is the Son of his father is because his mother became pregnant by HIS SPERM.  And the reason that Jesus is the Son of the Father {II Jn 3), and not the son of some other person, is because his Mother, Mary, was made pregnant by His Father "Holy Spirit."  Am I going to fast for you?

That is what I read from one of Ray's emails when I started this thread. It's only what got me thinking, not what the this thread is about.

Eileen

Dennis Vogel:

--- Quote from: winner08 on November 16, 2008, 03:07:36 PM ---When God said that we should not worship any idols, does this include statues of Mary and even at that, Jesus also??? What about the saints??would praying to these statues be the same as, lets say any other religion who prays to statues such as ,well i don't want to name names. Still would it not be breaking one of God's ten?

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Any image is wrong, let alone physical statues.

IMO, people worship many idols of the heart all day, everyday, without realizing it.

Example: For guys it could be a brand new car. It sits in the driveway and you go to the window over and over looking at it with admiration. It fills us with pride to know that's 'my' new car. We like how other people look at our new car with envy.

I'm as guilty as anyone. I just did some minor remodeling. I found myself just looking at my handyword with pride (not that we sould not do whatever we do with all our might).

Anything that fill's us up with pride (puffs up) is wrong. We can take credit for nothing.

Luk 18:19  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Dennis

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