Worshipping Statues Of Mary Is The Sin Of IDOLATRY!

Exodus 20:4-6, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

Worshipping statues is the sin of IDOLATRY. When I lived on Guam, my next door neighbour was Roman Catholic. They attended St. Jude Catholic parish down the road. The church would pass around a 2 1/2 foot tall ceramic statue of Our Lady of Fatima (a title for the Virgin Mary due to her alleged apparitions to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917). The family next door had decorated their home, as if Jesus were coming to stay with them. They decorated the living room, making a shrine to set the IDOLATROUS STATUE.

One day my neighbour had invited me over for something, I cannot remember. His wife invited a group of ladies to gather around and pray to the statue. The knew I was a born-again Christian and didn't agree with their wicked religion, so they started to pray to the statue as I was leaving... AND I WAS LEAVING!!!

In hindsight, it was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen. Literally, Catholic families on Guam pass a statue of Our Lady of Fatima around from house to house. The statue stays in each home for about 3 months, as they wickedly venerate the graven image. I preached the Gospel to my neighbour dozens of time, but he was deadlocked in his mind that works are required to get to Heaven.

Here is the SECOND of God's TEN COMMANDMENTS for humanity:

Exodus 20:4-6, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

By the way, if you examine the official Catholic TEN COMMANDMENTS from no Bible, they have wickedly completely removed the Second Commandment which forbids making and bowing to graven images.

To compensate for the missing Second Commandment, the Vatican deceitfully divided the Tenth Commandment not to covet into two separate commandments (one not to covet your neighbour's wife, and the other not to covet his goods). What a dirty deception! Since Catholics are guilty of worshipping statues, they just CHANGED God's Ten Commandments, throwing the Second Commandment under the bus.

FULL WELL YE REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, Jesus said in Mark 7:9, THAT YE MAY KEEP YOUR OWN TRADITION. Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion!!!