Well, if you want to look at it from OUR point of view, it is absolute HERESY to deny the authority of Holy Mother Church. The same Church that has been given the very power of God to "bind and loose". So therefore, if the Church says it is OK to venerate images of the saints, then it IS ok........
I'm not interested in your point-of-view. Only God's point-of-view matters. He says nothing in His Word about obeying Rome, but He does have a few choice words about the matter at hand, some of which I have already shared, and more about raising tradition above Scripture. That was the major issue Yeshua contended with the Pharisees over, in fact.
The same Church that has been given the very power of God to "bind and loose".
Binding and loosing does not extend to changing or annuling the commands of Scripture, as I explain in detail here.
So therefore, if the (Roman Catholic) Church says it is OK to venerate images of the saints, then the RCC is in the same position of the Pharisees who, also having the due authority to bind and loose, ran afoul of Yeshua for using that authority to nullify God's Word.