Yes. This is why I quoted Rom. 5:19-20, which speaks of the just. If your objection is that the saints don't themselves "dispense" of the grace, you are right but neither the Church teaches that.
Abraham is in heaven at that point
The scripture does not say that, and the Church does not teach that. Abraham's bosom is not heaven. It is the "prison" Christ ministered to and opened (1 Peter 3:19).
2 Cor 3:18 certainly does not instruct us to behold Holy Images
But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
I think it does.
There is no record of him using icons, statues, pictures, or images of any kind in his preaching
I just quoted one such record. You are rigth that it did not last long, as since 1c we don't worship in synagogues.
Abraham’s bosom is a prison! I’m sorry, I don’t get that from the text.
To be made in the image of something doesn’t mean there is a statue present to me. We of course are made in God’s image. That doesn’t imply statues or so forth.
I might entertain the idea that there might have been statues here or there if God throughout His word didn’t so strongly forbid them.
If the saints don’t dispense the grace, then I am not sure why you petition them.
I just noted the title of this thread - why the animosity? and I just wanted to further comment that certainly our exchanges and some exchanges with others don’t show animosity to me.
Disagreement doesn’t always equal animosity.
I don’t feel hatred towards anyone I talk about Catholicism/Protestantism with. I can disagree with someone without disliking or hating them. I also don’t think anyone has treated me with hatred as we have discussed these issues.