What's Wrong with Sinulog?

This article is not meant to inflame hatred towards Roman Catholics but rather towards their practices and an extension of love and compassion to tell them HOW wrong they are so they can see their need for salvation by grace through faith and an appeal to them to trust Jesus Christ alone as Lord and Savior ALONE for salvation. Real love does not rejoice in iniquity but rather in the TRUTH. Never take just one part of the Bible and forget the rest. No- the Bible is interpreted step by step! As said, God HATES idolatry and He still does. Roman Catholicics try to say that they are not worshiping the image (and even deny praying to it) but rather the one portrayed. That kind of reasoning has already been existent in other religions that try to defend their idolatry which they say is not idolatry.

First, it's time to check out Exodus 20:4-5 which warns against making graven images. It is definitely not surprising that the ten commandments posted outside of any Roman Catholic parish lacks the second and splits the tenth into two. The verse is even in the Catholic Bible. Looking at it, the Sto. Nino image is being bowed down to, venerated and even worshiped. What about Exodus 25:18? The images of the cherubim were meant to be hidden from the people and were NOT to be touched or venerated compared to the Sto. Nino image(Numbers 4:5-6, 15, 20; 1 Samuel 6:19). As said, people will always try to turn around like saying, "Hey it's just Old Testament" without really considering the whole Bible in its complete context.

Also the logic with Sto. Nino is this- Jesus is NO LONGER an infant. Pastor Ruben Lumagbas Jr. has even said in one of his lectures that Satan wants people to think Jesus is still a child. Is it surprising that in almost every cathedral that images of Mary are still carrying a baby Jesus in her arms? It does get pretty much creepy. Also the fact that these people dare to say that the Sto. Nino is Jesus Christ is in itself a blasphemy. How can that be said? Isaiah 42:8 has God declaring that He is the LORD that is His Name and His glory will not be with another, neither His praise be shared with GRAVEN IMAGES. Looking at it, isn't it that these images of Sto. Nino are being clothed, carefully cared for and well offered fruits, vegetables, food, etc.? It's no different from offering to pagan gods like Baal and Moloch- the same sinister religion set up in Babylon by Nimrod! That means no graven image can really represent God at all! Jesus said in John 4:24 that God ought to be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus being God applies that NO graven image should represent Jesus either! Acts 19:29 has it that the Godhead (Trinity) CANNOT be represented by a graven image.

Also the consequences show that it will always be an image of non-growing faith regardless of what Catholic apologists would try to say. Remembering Exodus 32, one has to consider the fact that Aaron's making the golden calf was in fact the worst mistake in his life. He was given to peer pressure. At first it was supposedly a feast for God but later, it spiraled out of control thanks to the demonic presence of the golden calf. Everything went from drunken revelry to orgies as evidenced by the people were NAKED. Moses knew serious camp cleaning had to be done. Thinking of it, God already gave His second commandment yet the people still broke the rules. The result was that at least 3,000 people had to be killed to clean the camp from sin! God is supposed to be the LORD of the lives of people not some inanimate object that relies on a demon that stays in it!

Sadly idolatry is really a way of life that many people choose because it makes a quick buck to those who sell the idols and they want to spend their money foolishly. In fact, the Philippine government even supports one idolatrous event over the other as if it were still the dark ages or the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Pastor Kent Jesalva of World in Need Baptist Church had quoted during the 50th anniversary of Bible Baptist Church Katipunan that the mission is also to people who worship a child god made of stone. In fact, only if people read Psalm 115:1-8, Isaiah 46 and Jeremiah 10 PROPERLY, the foolishness of idols is as foolish as this- a tree cut of out of the forest, carved, decked with silver and with gold and they have to be CARRIED around. And people will definitely flame this ministry as well as its associates because they make a quick buck out of images for worship for sale at the local idolatry stores. In Acts 19:26 it can be seen that when the Word of God was spread, idolatry ceased only by God's grace and thus caused a flaming thus proving God has NOT repealed the rules concerning graven images. So what? Christians are NOT supposed to seek approval of the worldly because they are ENEMIES OF GOD (John 15:18-19, James 4:4).