You quoted me as saying...
Decorating the tabernacle with a few angels is not the same thing as building statues...
But what I actually wrote was...
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 hair-splitting is being done by Rome when the RCC says it builds graven images and bows down to those graven images and prays to those graven images, but it isn't breaking God's commandment to refrain from exactly that.
The two angels on the Ark were where the Shekinah rested and if any bowing was done it had to be by the high priest not the people. (The ignorance of the bible here is always so revealing, especially when Catholics attempt to use Hebrew beliefs and theology, which they obviously know zero about, to defend Catholicism)
Who is splitting hairs. You have withdrawn your claim regarding the prohibition against creating images, but now focus on their usage.You continue to confuse the legitimate veneration of a sacred image with the sin of idolatry.
Though bowing can be used as a posture in worship, not all bowing is worship. In Japan, people show respect by bowing in greeting (the equivalent of the Western handshake). Similarly, a person can kneel before a king without worshiping him as a god. In the same way, a Catholic who may kneel in front of a statue while praying isn’t worshiping the statue or even praying to it, any more than the Protestant who kneels with a Bible in his hands when praying is worshiping the Bible or praying to it.
Now, go look up the definitions of the words veneration, intercession, icon, idolatry, and worship so that you understand the unique meaning of each and are able to differentiate between them.
RCC = Raving Calvinist Coven