Good Friday for Catholics, among other things, is a day of sorrowful contemplation of the horrible treatment and bloody redemptive death on the cross the precious Lord Jesus went through for the salvation of our souls (1 Pet. 1:9). In the Roman Catholic church, their Good Friday service includes all the parishioners bowing before and kissing the feet of the crucifix to show love and appreciation to the Lord Jesus. Though seemingly relevant and innocent, such is actually idolatry and a horrible violation of how Jesus taught his followers to show their love for him!
To bow before an image is forbidden by God, but especially hidden from Catholic children in their Baltimore Catechism! How can that be? It is because the Catholic Ten Commandments have been altered, concealing God’s command and their violation! Well-meaning and sincere Catholics are being duped by their leaders. To LOVE JESUS means to obey his commands:
If you love me, you will obey what I command. (John 14:15)
This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, (1 John 5:3)
Love Jesus or Hate Jesus?
Instead of venerating and loving Jesus by bowing before and kissing the crucifix, Catholics are committing idolatry, according to scripture, but that is not all! To commit idolatry like that is to show you “hate” God:
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, (Exo 20:4,5)
The seriousness of the sin of idolatry is explicitly revealed here:
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the IDOLATERS and all liars–their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (Rev 21:8)
What Should A Catholic Do?
A Catholic should first of all repent (turn from his sins). He needs God’s mercy and forgiveness, so he should go directly to God and sincerely, humbly cry out for it.
He needs to place all of his trust and faith in JESUS for his soul’s salvation, which leaves 0% for Mary, the sacraments and being a Catholic. This is the Bible way of being forgiven, though foreign in the Catholic church. As the Catholic reads the New Testament with an open mind and heart for God’s truth, various other vital truths will become apparent, revealing more Catholic deceptions. [Please pass this on to Catholics you know for the sake of their souls.]
