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Tigress
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Posted 4/9/2004 5:54 AM (GMT -6)

I watched a PBS program on the Shroud of Turin and while I found the whole possiblity that that shroud might have actually been the cloth used to cover Jesus' body after His crucifixion really exciting, I couldn't help but to think that such fascination with relics like that is tantamount to idol worship. Do you think God would be displeased with His children being so fascinated with Christian relics and the remains of saints, etc.? Because I don't think most Christians actually consciously worship those objects although many do venerate them which I think is supposed to be different from worship, but don't ask me how. Even the way many Christians view the holy land and the buildings and places within it could in some way be considered close to idolatrous worship. How do we draw the line between fascination and worship? Or is there really any difference?

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PotOnWheel
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Posted 4/9/2004 6:26 AM (GMT -6)

The ONLY question is this: WHOM DO YOU SERVE?

I can venerate the song "My Jesus I love Thee." But when I do -- even mediating on it -- it is a "wondow to heaven" of the reality of Christ's salfivic work and immesurable love. Better to say that it is "transparent." I see THROUGH it. And each detail in the song is a vehicle; but when I dwell there I don't get stuck on it. My true inner attention is only on Christ.

THIS is the picture we had the slide projector 'shine' for us while we sang "My Jesus I love Thee." (We're Protestants.)

If by "veneration" it means that we paid attention to it, and interacted with it, then yes we did. BUT in doing so, it was CHRIST whom we served!!!

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