11.THE QUESTION WAS:
According to
the Bible, which relics cured people?
a.
Elisha’s bones
b.
Peter’s shadow
c.
Face cloths that touched Paul
d.
None of the above
e.
All of the above
THE
ANSWER IS…… E…..ALL OF THE ABOVE
2 Kgs 13:20-21 “Elisha was dead and buried.
At the time, bands of Moabites used to raid the land each year. Once some
people were burying a man, when suddenly they spied sucha raiding band. So they cast the dead man into
grave of Elisha, and everyone went off. .But when the man came in contact with
the bones of Elisha, he came back to life and rose to his feet.”
Acts 5:15-16 “Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them. A large number of people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.”
Acts: 19:11-12 “So extraordinary were the
deeds God accomplished at the hands 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.”
St. Jerome
(340-420 A.D.) tells us we should venerate relics but we should not worship
them (which of course is what the Catholic Church teaches): "We do not
worship, we do not adore [non colimus, non adoramus], for fear that we
should bow down to the creature rather than to the Creator, but we venerate [honoramus]
the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore Him whose martyrs they
are.” ("Ad Riparium", i, P.
L., XXII, 907)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm
(Catholic Encyclopedia on Relics)
http://www.interx.net/~mbrumley/relics.htm
(What’s a Relic)
http://ic.net/~erasmus/ERASMUS8.HTM
(sacramentalism)
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On
a related topic, some Protestants object to images of God.
A thorough reading of the
Bible shows the Bible speaks badly of images only in the context of worshipping
images or making idols. The Bible never speaks badly of having objects
or relics that represent God or saints. Worshipping images and objects is of
course prohibited by the Catholic Church.
Some anti-image people even
try to use Exodus 20:3-5 as a proof of their belief:
“You shall not have other gods besides me.
You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the
shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters
beneath the earth; you shall not bow
down before them or worship them.” (Exodus 20:3-5)
IF one desires this verse to mean that you can’t
have images of God, then logically, one also cannot have images of ANYTHING in
heaven OR ON EARTH OR IN THE WATERS.
This would include the sculptures in the city….
pictures of people or flowers or fish or houses or stars… crosses… carvings…
photographs…definitely television….and forget the movies!
Fortunately, we are only commanded not to worships
objects.
Romans
1:22-27 also warns us against worshipping idols. Obviously, if we see a status
of Jesus, we are prohibited from worshipping the metal or plaster from which
the image is made. We may only worship what it represents: Jesus Himself.
Even the earliest Christians painted Jesus in murals
called frescoes on the catacomb walls. The scenes included Jesus raising
Lazarus, Jesus with the Woman at the Well, the Nativity Scene, Jesus being
adored by the Magi, and Jesus and the Samaritan Woman.
http://www.catholicapologetics.net/apolo_14.htm (to read about images, scroll down
to #6)
http://www.catholic.com/library/Do_Catholics_Worship_Statues.asp (statues)
http://www.catholic.com/library/Saint_Worship.asp (saint worship?)
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