Statues and Saints:
Roman Catholics believe:
Roman Catholics believe:
Catholics revere statues, images of Mary and Jesus, as well as of those who have they deified as saints. They pay homage to them and make pilgrimages to various sites claimed to be sacred and holy, for example, the shrines in Lourdes, and Fatima where it is claimed that Mary appeared.
The Catholic Church removed the second Commandment about worshiping
idles and split number ten commandment.
Most Protestants believe:
Most Protestants consider veneration of statues to be idolatry.
idles and split number ten commandment.
Most Protestants believe:
Most Protestants consider veneration of statues to be idolatry.
Adventists believe:
Adventists believe in obeying God's Ten Commandments, including the second commandment which forbids the making of images and the “bowing down to them.” Worshiping anything apart from the Creator Jesus Christ is idolatry.
Exodus 20:4-6. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Adventists believe in obeying God's Ten Commandments, including the second commandment which forbids the making of images and the “bowing down to them.” Worshiping anything apart from the Creator Jesus Christ is idolatry.
Exodus 20:4-6. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
