Exodus 20:4-6 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
What Catholics as a whole seem to miss is that these verses don't say not to worship them although that is what is implied, but we are not to bow down to images. The first thing Catholics do is deny that they worship the images, but if you watch, in any Catholic church, you DO see people bowing down before them, like when they're lighting candles to them representing the prayers they are praying to them.
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