Topic: Is it a sin to pray to statues of Buddah, Mama Mary etc. (Read 2028 times)

Its only a sin if you deem it so. Since only you can make decisions for yourself then you're your own moral shepherd.

Yes, today religions mostly have only one God, or in case of Buddhism... teacher. But that is not the case here. Question here is, is it wrong to pray to a statue, in meaning to idolize statue over a real saint. To consider a statue like living thing. I think that if you are a believer it would be "wrong" to consider statue of some saint a living thing, and speak to it as if statue listen. 

God is known by many names, Krishna, Alah, Govinda, because he has so many aspects, for instance Krishna means Allattractive... and God never destroys sinners or for praying to other idols, or whatever your wish is, God is kind and he leaves us with that 20% of free will that we have here, and even that is decreased due to other things in your life...  And so he leaves us alone, God never smites, except if his devotee is in trouble, when a devotee needs him he comes and saves him of unfortunate situtation. But other than that, God is never angry, his only wish is that we come back home, oooo, oooooo, would you come back home?!

 

Do you mean if it's a sin like in the bible when people were praying to idols and God destroyed them cause they should only be praying to him? I don't think so, since those are statues of the said gods or their apostles/prophets. By praying to the statue the person is praying to the appropriate god, so nothing wrong with it.

There were people however that thought praying to church icons for example is a sin in that manner. In the Byzantine empire the anti icon movement were especially strong early on in the first millennium BC. At one point they even managed to ban all visual depictions of christian saints and Christ himself for about a hundred years if I'm not mistaken.

In Islam to this day it's unacceptable to draw Allah, though nobody knows how Allah looks anyway

no it's not, it's a sin to ignore them... All that is eternal is only beneficial for you, that is spirituality

God is one, just different religions describe him in different ways. I think from this nothing will be bad, if not self-suggesting that it is sinful and will bring harm.

All the Gods and Dieties are really the same thing just in different candy wrap in My knowlage.

In my religion yes we know that God said to dont worship other gods than him so like praying to buddah , mama mary i think it is consider a sin to the Lord if you would do that statues are not god and it cannot save you from your sin we know that Jesus is the only one who can gave us salvation and he pay for all our sins in the world just beleive in the Lord and you will be save.

If you think that this will be of use, then you can pray. And just follow the lead of other people and lose time does not make sense, life is too short.

Why is it that if a person believes that this means that he is a fanatic But this is fundamentally wrong. I believe but not a fanatic about religious ideas and teachings but I'm not sure of the Holy Father.

For a religious fanatic, this can be a sin, but for an ordinary person who takes destiny into his own hands it will be a waste of time.

As a Christian myself, of course it is a sin to pray to a statue whatever it may be because according to God's commandments is that do not make any image or likeness of him. But some prays to it because they believe that it is the representation of God here on earth, like the Catholics.

In these people no one justifies, because even research and scientists have confirmed that these are historical personalities.

I believe in God and the virgin Mary. I do not care what the atheists say and what the atheists think.

For me, praying to idols/statue is a deception of a devil. Why? You called "pagan" when people pray to trees, moon, and sun. You also called praying to buddah a pagan. But why you not called praying to statues of Mary, and other statues a pagan? Dont be deceived.

They are not idols. It is a reminder of sort. For example, if you look on icon and pray, you are not praying to icon, but to that saint on icon for protection. And crosses are same thing, it remind us of wrong deed that is done to Jesus, and suffering that he went true. Most of items that are used by religious people have meaning, and gives them some meaning, but they are not idols.

A very strong remark. I wonder how the holy fathers would comment on this, that icons and crosses are akin to idols.

As a Christian, it's not good to be praying for objects that makes it them seem like idols

You need to pray to those who really help. I do not understand how you can pray to a statue or god a hundred times a day and it will not help. So this is all a hoax

People without faith or those who completely reject faith All holy things are those who lost faith because they did not have enough strength and patience. Perhaps it's even those people who have lost something or something.

Angels exist, but we do not see them. They help us in difficult situations and protect us from all kinds of trouble.

no it is not .i think it is the best way so that you can ask someone to protect you from all the evil.well i am honest with you that terrorism has no religion and no religion tells us to spread terrorism and kill innocent people.

From ancient times, people were stupid, they were seeing angels and other worldly creatures coming and going or heard about them from prophets throughout the millenniums and because of ignorant and practically nothing else much useful to do back then they thought them as gods.
In India there are millions of gods actually lol, imagine almost a billion idiots worshiping millions of gods as if the creation is decentralized and the power is distributed among those so called gods, we all can see what an open source and publicly available network could be like.

BU gods Vs SW gods, assuming those gods have their own powers right? if they have no power for creating then they're not gods and if they have the power then they must've got it from some place, wouldn't BU destroy blockstream in a heart beat if they had access to hash power? and vice versa.

And now you think God needed help from angels?
And now you think God could be so low to come as a man? or you think we all are His creation just like Jesus was, couldn't God create Jesus just by saying the words: "become" as He did create the entire plain of existence by saying "be" "become"?

Don't you see the similarities? where we program apps, games and characters in details and then let the GPU to do the rendering and with a few clicks and key strokes we create our own(virtual)worlds, can't you see how an intelligent being such as us humans behave?

The Bible is written by people and many of the right things in it are considered sinful. You can pray even Satan, but the main thing is to remain human and not harm others.

Depends on what religious denomination you are. But almost all religion has only One God to pray.

It's a sin to kill people, destroy nature and mock animals. And you can pray to anyone, just do not impose it on someone else.

God doesn't deal with human things, and he should not. God does not direct men to right path, because God gave Human kind a gift of Free will. And that means we are responsible for every our choice in life. There is a lot of evil in this world, and God doesn't do anything on that matter, and its right, because that is mortal thing. God is responsible for after life and creation of all living things. Don't mix God work with mortal things and deeds...

I do not consider it a sin, I consider it a waste of time. It is better to pray for yourself and believe in yourself, because in each of us there is a part of the creator.

We must accept that God is one, and all the others whom they worship are assistants. But this is not worship. The worship was with the Gentiles, I here pray to them. The difference should be sought for yourself. But even God does not require worship. God directs man to the right path.

Yes, we all have a guardian angel and angels are our protectors, intercessors etc so I agree with you there.  Certainly not on the level of God since God is eternal and uncreated and the angels were created by God, but like Him in that they are pure spirit and in His image and likeness

God has helpers. For example, there are also guardian angels and they can also ask for help, but not with prayers, but rather with their words to save time and clarity of the request.

Seccerius,

Spoken like the pagan you are.  Pray to the only one, true God.  All else is from the evil one

The First Commandment of the Ten Commandments in the Bible is, "Thou shalt have no other gods as you live before me."

If you truly pray to these others, when you could be praying to God, you are breaking the First Commandment. All wrongdoing is sin.

Yes, I consider it a waste of time. You can believe in different deities, but it's foolish to lose time for praying to them. Time is a very precious thing and it is better to use it to achieve goals.

  First of all Buddhism is a false religion.  I wouldn't be caught dead with a statue or picture of him anywhere near me (even if he did exist, which I doubt), for that reason alone.  
  Secondly, Catholics do not pray to statues, we pray to the person represented in the image of the statue, painting etc for their intercession.  Big difference.  Only a buffoon would pray to a statue which would be idolatry

I think praying to statues are old way of believers and the bible said if the old covenant are not corrupt we shouldn't have find a way for another. In addition, Jesus came to show a way and if I could remember so sadduce came to Jesus asking him is possible to leave one woman and take another woman as Moses said. Jesus said it because of your stone heart that's why Moses said it. In other for a Christian to see the kingdom of God, such person must practice the way Jesus came to show us.
Therefore, praying to or at a statues is for a small believer or someone who's lack of knowledge and the bible says people perish cause the lack knowledge.

well, it depends on religion. some religion doesn't allow you to pray on statues

Well first of all I must say that, it would be stupid to pray to statue of Buddha, because Buddha was a simple man who just got enlightened. And Buddha means Enlightened one, so after we understood that Buddha was not a god and that Buddhism is not a religion but a teaching, we can understand why i said it would be stupid to prey to Buddha statue. If you ask me i think its not sin, unless you commit sin by hurting some other human with what you do. But some people would disagree i think.

Praying to non-existent deities is a complete waste of time and energy. Anyone who believes this nonsense is just uneducated. Ignorance and Religion has been used to enslave us for centuries. Weak minded people will always fall prey to this. The only solution is education.

That will depends on your religion.One example of this is the Roman Catholic religion they are praying on the images and statues of saints that bible forbidden it.

Ok enough for nerdy trading and blockchain talks, lets have a break.

Is it a sin to pray to statues of Buddah, Mary, Jesus. What the bible says about this?

What is your stand on this?