[Dr. Eckleburg]

Nowhere in Scripture does God command anyone to construct a statue or graven image and kneel to that image in prayer.

Decorating the tabernacle with a few angels is not the same thing as building statues and praying to those statues when the Triune God alone demands all our prayers.

The words of admonition are in black and white. The words of admonition are part of the Ten Commandments. And yet Rome ignores the words and admonitions and commandments of God and bows down to the stock of a tree.

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God" -- Exodus 20:4-5

Does the Roman Catholic Bible include the Ten Commandments or not?

[Natural Law]

"Decorating the tabernacle with a few angels is not the same thing as building statues..."

Can we get a replay of that hair splitting picture here?

[Cronos]

Nowhere in Scripture does God command anyone to construct a statue or graven image and kneel to that image in prayer.

1. The serpent's image constructed by Moses.
2. The angels and cherubim on the Holy of Holies, the Ark, to which the Jews bowed.

In both of those cases, just like in the art in Churches, those statues, paintings etc. do not contain God or any part of Him, they are merely images. In both cases, just like in Church, those images are not worshipped, they are venerated as pointers to The One who deserves worship -- God.

The Catholic Church has the Commandments yes, but the impaired break-away groups removed the Apocrypha and impaired The Bible.

[maryz]

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God" -- Exodus 20:4-5

You might read up on The History of the Iconoclastic Heresy, which arose under the influence of Islam and against the already long tradition of veneration of images by the Church, and its condemnation by the Second Council of Nicea in the eigth century.

Basing itself on the mystery of the incarnate Word, the seventh ecumenical council at Nicaea (787) justified against the iconoclasts the veneration of icons -- of Christ, but also of the Mother of God, the angels, and all the saints. By becoming incarnate, the Son of God introduced a new "economy" of images.

The Incarnation made a much bigger, more far-reaching and more real difference than you seem to realize.