Worship.
Luke 22:19, is done in remembrance of someone. Are you not remembering Mary or any of the other saints?
Strong's has worship being translated as bow, obedience, reverence, fall down, stoop, crouch. Are not people that bow before a statue of Mary participating in worship to an idol (
Lev 26:1)?
I believe you'd state the idol you bow down to as needing to be "alive" or "more than an image" but every single time I read references to idols, the people worshiping them made no such distinction. The Idol to an Unknown God wasn't even an image to anything and yet it was condemned?
2 Chron 33:7, pretty well speaks against putting images of anything in the house of God, how do you reconcile this?
Prayer to Saints
1 Timothy 2:5, only one mediator between God and man, so I ask, even if this is innocent, what's the point?
Why do you not pray to, say... Judas? Romans 2 tells us there's no favoritism among sinners and in other letters we obviously know that all are evil, unclean sinners.
The only time I see Biblically where a saint is spoken to (Samuel) it seems he was rather mad about the whole deal and was not in God's favor during this time. I also see any other time when speaking with the dead is mentioned, it is always condemned as witchcraft, etc?
Hebrews 4:6, are there two thrones to be approached? I guess this ties to my first question of what's the point?
The Saints Attributes
This ties to above... What makes Mary more special? Indeed it'd seem you'd have to add to what the Bible tells us about Mary so how do you take
1 Cor 4:6 about not adding to Scripture?
You
Where do you draw the line between "tradition" and "written" in accountability to the Roman Catholic Church? You cannot deny the practice, as stated in an earlier post (I haven't read them all) of a Father not marrying... Nor the reasoning behind the Papacy. So when do you draw the line and stand up and say, "Yes, this represents what Roman Catholics do!" and "No, that should be condemned". And at what point do the things that need to be condemned amount to enough to denounce the work of the RCC?