The document discusses the Catholic Church's teaching on the veneration of images. It states that the veneration of images evolved over centuries as a form of popular devotion that spread Catholicism. The Church teaches that venerating images is not idolatrous because the honor is directed to the person depicted, not the image itself. Biblical passages are presented that show figures worshiping or bowing before the Ark of the Covenant and cherubim, supporting the doctrine. The conclusion restates that venerating images represents devotion to the holy beings or realities depicted, not complete worship which is due to God alone.
The document discusses the Catholic Church's teaching on the veneration of images. It states that the veneration of images evolved over centuries as a form of popular devotion that spread Catholicism. The Church teaches that venerating images is not idolatrous because the honor is directed to the person depicted, not the image itself. Biblical passages are presented that show figures worshiping or bowing before the Ark of the Covenant and cherubim, supporting the doctrine. The conclusion restates that venerating images represents devotion to the holy beings or realities depicted, not complete worship which is due to God alone.
The document discusses the Catholic Church's teaching on the veneration of images. It states that the veneration of images evolved over centuries as a form of popular devotion that spread Catholicism. The Church teaches that venerating images is not idolatrous because the honor is directed to the person depicted, not the image itself. Biblical passages are presented that show figures worshiping or bowing before the Ark of the Covenant and cherubim, supporting the doctrine. The conclusion restates that venerating images represents devotion to the holy beings or realities depicted, not complete worship which is due to God alone.
The document discusses the Catholic Church's teaching on the veneration of images. It states that the veneration of images evolved over centuries as a form of popular devotion that spread Catholicism. The Church teaches that venerating images is not idolatrous because the honor is directed to the person depicted, not the image itself. Biblical passages are presented that show figures worshiping or bowing before the Ark of the Covenant and cherubim, supporting the doctrine. The conclusion restates that venerating images represents devotion to the holy beings or realities depicted, not complete worship which is due to God alone.
NE GE VE S Presented by: Jethro Madria Justine Rose Fabie Jessabell Rose Hinalao INTRODUCTION The veneration of images evolved over the centuries in many forms of popular devotion and has certainly contributed significantly to the spread of the Catholic religion in the world.
Further, the veneration of images involves humans or other subjects
showing respect and homage to objects that visually represent, point to, or embody sacred beings or realities held to be especially worthy of honor.
Moreover, the veneration of images answers to a need of our human
nature; we respect the portraits of those whom we love or esteem; moreover it is the will of God that man, who lost true happiness for the sake of material things, should regain it by means of material things. CHURCH TEACHING The ultimate justification of images is God's incarnation in Christ: by taking a human body and nature, God made himself visible and material. The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone. CHURCH TEACHING Christian veneration of images is not idolatrous, sacrilegious because the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype, meaning to the person portrayed in the image. Images are mere things in themselves, but they are leading us on to God incarnate. CHURCH TEACHING It teaches people about the "bowing down" , which has a variety of meanings: in some cultures people like you and me bow before each other. Therefore it is important to know what the "bowing down" means. In the Catholic Church "bowing down" is contrasted to genuflection (kneeling). Generally, the latter indicates worship (God), the former is a lesser act on honoring somebody, i.e. Mary or a saint. BIBLICAL PASSAGES THAT SUPPORT THE DOCTRINE Joshua 7:6-7 Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads. [7] And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
2 Chronicles 3:7 So he lined the house with gold -- its
beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls. BIBLICAL PASSAGES THAT SUPPORT THE DOCTRINE Exodus 33:10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door.
1 Chronicles 16:1-4 And they brought the ark of God, and
set it inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. [2] And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD, [3] and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. [4] Moreover he appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, ILLUSTRATIONS/PICTURES ABOUT THE DOCTRINE CONCLUSION Worshiping images is thus a paradigm of symbolic representation. A belief system expreseed by sacred images in order to convey devotion about how people relate to the holy or sacred. When a sacred entities or realities that are seen to be especially deserving of respect, a person pays them respect and obeys them. The ultimate justification for images is God becoming material and manifest in the person of Jesus Christ. The respect shown to religious symbols is form of respect, not the complete devotion of God. REFERENCES: https://bellarmineforum.org/bf_catechism/the-catechism-explained/part-ii-the- commandments-vice-and-virtue-perfection/a-the-commandments/x-the-ten- commandments-of-god/the-first-commandment-of-god/6-the-veneration-of-images-of-the- saints/
