[P-Marlowe]

The bible did not come with pictures and demonstrations. We can only know the meanings of the words because they are passed onto us by traditions. The disagreement between Protestants and Catholics are what books comprise the canon, and what meanings words have.

We protestants call this "worship":

[dangus]

Bible: "For thou shall worship no other god."

Worship, in the biblical sense, means to make obeisance, to beseech, or to stoop towards in a manner intended to indicate such obeisance. It does not mean to carry a statue around. Catholics do that towards no Saint, including Mary. Nonetheless, Catholics do take care not to accidentally break the first/first-and-second commandment. Lest any inclination in any Catholic's heart be to regard honor (and we ARE commanded in the bible to give due honor) as a favor, we must not honor any soul whose will may not be in full and complete union with Christ. This is why Catholics define certain deceased as Saints. It is not to deny the likelihood of great, living Christians as being saints, but to ascertain that a given departed soul's will is one with Christ.

Of course, you all would understand that if you didn't follow those who rejected Christ in censoring out seven books of the bible, and steadfastly ignoring seven others which were once censored by Luther but later restored.