Just asking (10): is this name an icon?
Are Catholics and Conservative Protestants twins separated at birth?
Just asking.
“We don’t worship Mary. You Catholics do.” Protestants would say.
“No we venerate only.”
“We don’t believe there’s magic with icons.”
“Neither do we. Icons just call us to remember vividly.”
“But we abhor people using the name of Jesus.
And we speak that name over all malaises, physical, spiritual, mental and social!
The name is power!”
Conservative Protestants proclaimed, or more accurately exclaimed.
Increasingly I find Pentecostals do likewise.
I’m just asking how is it different from Catholics praying to St Mary or St Anna?
This is not to reprosecute the argument put forth in “The Name of Jesus”.
Rather this aims to ask if the name is as much an icon, in the mind of Protestants, Pentecostals in particular.
Which name?
“Jesus”?
Sure?
Bible grounded?
Just asking.