#11002 Does the Bible Prohibit Veneration of Icons? - Suan Sonna

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

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Questions Covered: 20:31 – Has the east dogmatized icons? Is that similar in the west? 23:42 – Didn’t Jesus say that we are all gods? Shouldn’t we then venerate ourselves? Are we in competition with God? 36:28 – I am an Orthodox convert to Eastern Catholicism. I would be so let down if I walked into a church without Icons. 38:05 – Prayer to saints seems to be more than just venerating. Can you help clarify? 48:27 – I think Elijah’s condemnation of worshiping demons is a warning to not worship saints. What are your thoughts on this? …

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to Caffe Canter's Live. I'm Sy Kelly, your host, and this promise
0:18.5	swansona with us this hour. And we'll talk about the veneration of icons. What is that
0:24.9	all about? What does that mean as far as our understanding of worship, worshiping God and not
0:31.0	images, all of that? I forgot to tell you something last hour that I was supposed to tell you,
0:35.4	though. So before I introduce swan and bring them on here, I want to tell you that our Catholic
0:40.3	answers YouTube channel because of the amazing work of Zach Maxwell, who is in charge of that
0:47.3	channel, now has 150,000 subscribers. So I don't even know if Zach can hear me in there.
0:54.6	Congratulations, Zach, on reaching 150,000 subscribers. Now on to a million to infinity and beyond.
1:02.4	Nice work, Zach. And apparently the Lord approves of Zach's work as well because he's he's
1:09.0	reaping a great reward next month. He'll be gone for the next couple weeks because he's getting
1:14.1	married. That is one of life's great rewards, marriage. Well, well, anyways, congratulations on both
1:20.1	of those things, but especially, and I mean this from my heart, on getting 150,000 subscribers.
1:27.7	The swan sona is our guests. And as I said, we're going to talk about the veneration of icons.
1:34.3	Swan was a Baptist. He converted to Catholicism. You probably know him from intellectual conservatism
1:40.2	is podcast, but that is now changed to intellectual Catholicism. Swan sona, thanks for being with us.
1:47.2	Oh, it's great to see you again, Sy. I'm so happy to be back. Oh, we're very happy to have you
1:51.2	back. We missed you actually. So if I just go to intellectualcatholicism.com, I'll find your
1:57.7	podcast. Well, so it's not a website like that just yet, but it is a YouTube channel and podcasts.
2:04.0	Ah, YouTube channel. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, and then what kind of things will I see there? Because
2:09.4	you have such an appreciative following. And I think people are appreciative of you. And I
2:14.7	see Protestants, I have to say I've seen dozens and dozens of Protestants say, I just like swan
2:19.7	so much because he's so considerate the way he speaks. He's so respectful, I suppose, is what
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