“If you don’t believe that God works through relics, then you don’t believe the Bible.”
Please post verses that teach, command or implore believers to save, worship, venerate, idolize or kneel down before “relics.”
Post verses that say this is normative for believers in the Christian assembly.
Sloppy. Catholics do not worship or idolize relics. Neither do we kneel before relics in and of themselves, but in reverence of God who graciously condescends to work through the object.
Numbers 21:9 relates that Moses made a bronze snake, elevated it upon a staff, and that anyone who looked upon it was healed of snakes bites (and it important to note in 2 Kings 18:4 that when the Israelites came to believe that the snake held in and of itself, it was destroyed. The Catholic Church has always stressed that relics hold no power inherently).
In 2 Kings 2:13, Elisha picked up Elijah’s cloak and took it away with him after the latter had been taken up, and God permitted a miracle to occur through the cloak.
In 2 Kings 13:21, God performed a miracle through the bones of Elisha.
Acts 19:12 states that God performed miracles through cloaks and handkerchiefs that had been touched to Paul's person.
"Post verses that say this is normative for believers in the Christian assembly."
Is this your way of dismissing Scriptural examples as one-offs?