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WW3 TAKE A BREAK FROM ERDOGAN! US SOLDIERS WOUNDED DURING RUSSIAN CHASE IN NORTHEAST SYRIA! KURDS BLOWN UP TURKISH FACILITIES IN TURKISH CITIES.
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If I recall correctly, the same God of the orthodox people clearly told us that we are not allowed to worship icons. Here we clearly have proof why He interdicts us this.
Quoting: AndrewDobre2000 People pray to the Saints and NOT to a piece of wood or stone or coloured glass. The iconoclasm is a heresy and many have been killed and suffered torture due to the heretics said, just like you, that the icons should be no longer. We do not make ourselves gods of the holy icons, but by honoring the holy face, the icon, we honor God of the True One, or His Most Holy Mother, or the saint painted in it. Looking at the holy face with our material eyes, we turn our spiritual eyes to the first face, to its prototype. The holy icons, like the Holy Scriptures, remind us of real people and events. Did not the Lord and our God Jesus Christ, whom we honor and praise through these images, incarnate and live on earth among us in reality? Did not the Most Holy Mother of God live on earth, whose icon was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist? And She blessed the icon in question and said, "In this way My grace will remain forever." Do the mindless sectarians know that? Have they not heard how many miracles are performed through the icons of the Most Holy Mother of God?Yeah, this is the definition of idolatry. Neither the Egyptians nor Hindus or any other religion in this world are not so stupid to literally pray to wood and stone idols. They all are praying to the god that the idol represents. All idolaters make an intellectual distinction between the idol and the god behind the idol. So all worship of icons is idolatry. No. Read again what Holy Mother of Jesus said to the Apostle who painted Her. If you are brain washed there is a cure for you: wait till you will need Her. “The myth (that Luke painted Mary) was invented in order to support the legitimacy of icon veneration during the Iconoclast controversy [8th and 9th centuries]. By claiming the existence of a portrait of the Theotokos painted during her lifetime by the evangelist Luke, the perpetrators of this fiction fabricated evidence for the apostolic origins and divine approval of Images.” - Icons and Power: the Mother of God in Byzantium (Pennsylvania State University, 2006), Bessera V. Pentcheva
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