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So you don't go along with the Council of Trent where it condemns all Protestants to hell?

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Here we go! Praying to the container of the host (where the wafers are kept)! Ooooo! Look at this one!

My most holy Lady, I also beg you to obtain for me true obedience and humility of heart so that I may see myself truly as a sinner, miserable and weak and powerless, without the grace and assistance of my Creator and without your holy prayers. Obtain for me as well, most sweet Lady, true...

I guess these people are pagans then... Oh dear!! The Pope is a pagan!!!

So, as the Catholic prayer book has prayers in it to Mary as the Queen of Heaven whose intercession for sinners is the only way they can be saved, this is not idolatry? And when Catholics pray to the box where the Eucharist host is stored, is that not idolatry as well? What about when people...

It may be that you don't understand the NZ accent and the expressions that he uses. You may realise that it is a satire on NZ farming life.

It is straight history, but you don't want to believe it.

It's all quite clearly stated in the statutes of the Council of Trent. You can't avoid it.

That's not personal insult, that is Kiwi humour! I heard that Americans don't understand Australian and NZ humour.

Did you know that rat poison is 99.6% very tasty food for rats? And it is just 0.4% that kills them stone dead. That means that a preacher might preach 99.6% true doctrine, and 0.4% false doctrine, but it is the false doctrine that can spiritually kill a person stone dead! That's why these...

When I'm appealing a banana, people who observe me think that evolution might be true! :D

The most popular form of idolatry in our churches is the having of a mental image of a God whom folks are comfortable with while not repenting of their sinful habit patterns. It is the mental image of a God who is a God of love, but not one of justice.

When I pray for someone for healing, I just put my hand on their wrist as a point of contact and say, "Jesus heals you", then I leave it up to the Lord because He is the one who heals according to His own will and sovereignty.

We don't have snakes in NZ, and Roundup doesn't taste very nice.

John said, "Little children, keep yourself from idols". That is New Testament, and John, writing from Ephesus, is instructing both Jewish and Gentile believers to keep away from idols. Furthermore, Jesus is no longer on the cross. He is resurrected and is in glory with the Father.

Of course not!

Do you?

The Christ of the Bible is not pagan. But the image of Christ on the crucifix is an idol and anyone who worships a crucifix is breaking the second commandment.