Where did the Catholics get thereideas that relics (fingers,rings,pieces of wood)of Apostles could be used to do miracles? Why from the Bible of course! [Acts 19:11,12] There is says:
"And God did works of power thru the hands of Paul,not the common works; but so as even handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin to be brought onto those sick, and the diseases to be released from them; and the evil spirits to go out from them."
If only the world knew where his magic hankey was today! It sure would be a boon to cancer research. Did the hankey have to be used? Did the hankey have an expiration date? Did it's miracle power slowly wear off? Do I really want to know about his apron and how it touched his skin? (nothing but her apon on) Why don't they use this in horror films? Chasing away Freddie Krueger waving one of Paul's hankies.
Paul's magic hankey
by peacefulpete 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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peacefulpete
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robhic
I (as one raised catholic) always found the thought of relics very disturbing. A piece of a dead person's body?! Holy cow, that is creepy. And nasty. And ... disgusting!
My grandmother was a dedicated follower of St. Theresa of Avila. She also had a class 1 (I believe?) relic of St. Thersa's bone!!! I always got into trouble for trivializing "the relic" as a pork-chop bone or other type bone. It really stirred them up.
Anyway, the whole deal is freaky. Touching someone with a relic and healing them is just psychosomatic, IMO. My mother touched me with it one time I was sick and I fell to the floor screaming "it burns it burns!" like holy water on a devil. That pretty much ended my getting touched and subsequently healed by the "pork-chop bone in a snuff can" that was the St. Theresa relic.
Although "the relic" had some healings to its credit (I guess there were a few psychosomatic members of that family...) it got snatched up at grandma's death by a church she used to attend. I wonder who's getting healed now?
Robert
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blondie
Wasn't a man resurrected when his dead body came in contact with Elisha's bones?
2 Kings 13:20-21 After that E·li´sha died and they buried him. And there were marauding bands of the Mo´ab·ites that regularly came into the land at the coming in of the year. 21 And it came about that as they were burying a man, why, here they saw the marauding band. At once they threw the man into E·li´sha?s burial place and went off. When the man touched the bones of E·li´sha, he immediately came to life and stood upon his feet. -
peacefulpete
Blondie Yep, thats another example of "proof texts" for relic use. The supposed use of a holy mans bones to heal or raise the dead would be considered Voodoo baloney in most people's minds.
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peacefulpete
Blondie Yep, thats another example of "proof texts" for relic use. The supposed use of a holy mans bones to heal or raise the dead would be considered Voodoo baloney in most people's minds.
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got my forty homey?
I keep a hankey by my computer in my den, nothing magic about, although my wife is always asking me if I dropped it in paper mache when she washes it!
King of the carrot cuffers!
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