Aieno Wrote:

Your response concerning food exposes the fact that in prior communications we have discussed blood since I did not bring up eating anything strangled. Sacrifices in pagan temples were slaughtered not strangled, so what you have done is add to what Paul wrote in the Scriptures you referenced. Tell me Rome, have you ever slaughtered an animal and prepared the carcass for food? Depending on the situation the first thing that is done is the animal is bled and then gutted or gutted and then bled, therefore the meat sold in temples was mostly blood free. Now unless you like your steaks blood rare, cooking meat removes the blood.

And before you try to deny that Catholics bow before images there are a plethora of pictures of Catholics bowing before images of Mary.

I see you avoided the queen of heaven:
Jeremiah 7:17-20

17 "Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out libations to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 "Do they spite Me?" declares the LORD. "Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?" 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."
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Jeremiah 44:16-19
16 "As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you! 17 "But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well off, and saw no misfortune. 18 "But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine." 19 "And," said the women, "when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven, and were pouring out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out libations to her?"
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