.Naaman, who had leprosy, went to Elisha for a cure. Elisha told him "Go wash in the Jordan 7 times, and your flesh shall be clean." (2 Ki 5:10) Naaman was furious and said ..."I thought he would...call on the name of the Lord, his God, and wave his hand over the spot, and cure the Leprosy." Sometimes God calls us to heal people by the laying of hands, and sometimes God uses material things. People were healed by Peter's shadow (Acts15:5 ); The lady with hemorrhages was healed by touching Jesus' garment (Mk 9:20, 6:56, Lk 8:44, Mat 14:36); Jesus cured the blind man using mud. (Jn 9:6); Holy oil is found in the Bible "...anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." (James 5:14, 15; Mat 6:13); In the Old Testament, "..when the man came in contact with the bones of Elisha, he came back to life and rose to his feet" (2 Kings 13:20-21 Note: this is also a model for the Catholic concept of relics); In the book of Acts we find "So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hand of Paul that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them." (Act 19:11-12); WORSHIPPING WITH ALL OUR SENSES Catholics want to worship Jesus with all 5 of their senses: Music for the ears, Incense for the nose, Statues and art for the eyes, Statues also let little old ladies reach out and touch something. They are not worshiping the statue when they touch it. If you went inside their head and their heart you would see that their mind is filled with love for Jesus at the moment they touch the statue, like an evangelical during worship music. The beads are another thing we Catholics hold onto, The most awesome way we worship him is through the taste in communion. From Rev 8...........4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Rev 5..........8 And when He had taken the book, the four living beings and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of saints.
.Naaman, who had leprosy, went to Elisha for a cure. Elisha told him "Go wash in the Jordan 7 times, and your flesh shall be clean." (2 Ki 5:10) Naaman was furious and said ..."I thought he would...call on the name of the Lord, his God, and wave his hand over the spot, and cure the Leprosy." Sometimes God calls us to heal people by the laying of hands, and sometimes God uses material things.
People were healed by Peter's shadow (Acts15:5 );
The lady with hemorrhages was healed by touching Jesus' garment (Mk 9:20, 6:56, Lk 8:44, Mat 14:36);
Jesus cured the blind man using mud. (Jn 9:6);
Holy oil is found in the Bible "...anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." (James 5:14, 15; Mat 6:13);
In the Old Testament, "..when the man came in contact with the bones of Elisha, he came back to life and rose to his feet" (2 Kings 13:20-21 Note: this is also a model for the Catholic concept of relics);
In the book of Acts we find "So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hand of Paul that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them." (Act 19:11-12);
WORSHIPPING WITH ALL OUR SENSES
Catholics want to worship Jesus with all 5 of their senses:
Music for the ears,
Incense for the nose,
Statues and art for the eyes,
Statues also let little old ladies reach out and touch something. They are not worshiping the statue when they touch it. If you went inside their head and their heart you would see that their mind is filled with love for Jesus at the moment they touch the statue, like an evangelical during worship music. The beads are another thing we Catholics hold onto,
The most awesome way we worship him is through the taste in communion.
From Rev 8...........4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.
Rev 5..........8 And when He had taken the book, the four living beings and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of saints.