"And if an angel didn’t want even mistaken worship, why would a saint want it if it were possible to speak to him or her? The kneeling, the kissing of icons?"
Really?
There was a lot more going on in those verses than pat stereo types of kneeling meaning worshiping. Maybe the angel knew John was thinking he was God himself.
Also How to you explain Jesus going to have people kneel and bow to the Saints of Philadelphia.
Revelation 3:
7 `"And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!
8 I have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door -- opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name;
9 lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and BOW BEFORE THY FEET, and may know that I loved thee."
So here is an example of kneeling before Saints by Jesus's own words.
Hhhmmmmmmmm......