Seven centuries removed from the apostles and SUDDENLY it is settled. Ha, ha, ha.
Even while the apostles were alive, they had to reprove error in the church and call the church to repentance.
All of these things were clearly added after the apostles were gone.
Nothing in the Bible provides for churches to meet in special buildings with special art.
What the apostles left for us to follow does not harmonize with “veneration” of icons and relics, regardless of how many clergy people say so today or seven centuries after the apostles were dead.
It was wrong to bow to the apostles when they were alive. It is wrong to bow to images of them now when they are dead.
The weed of heresy, unlearner, always bears bitter fruit, thus the embrace of Mohammedanism by elements of protestantism, in more ways than one if the postings of certain Freepers is any indication.
Ironic, isn’t it?!
BTW, the first icon was written by St. Luke.
Why would it be inherently wrong to bow to the Apostles, but not inherently wrong for Abraham to bow to the people of Hebron?