So, if the words: honor, venerate, and worship are interchangeable and the protestant has no intellectual compunction about conflating them, why are they to be believed when it comes to their interpretation of the Word? The Holy Spirit surely knows that these terms have different meaning and yet the Protestant does not. Which can only strengthen the idea that protestant exegesis is not of the Divine.
veneror: to reverence, worship, adore, revere, venerate
source: latin word study tool
veneror: Verb
present active veneror, present infinitive venerārī, perfect active venerātus sum (deponent) 1.I worship, adore, revere, venerate 2.I pay (my) respects
as I said, catholics play on the semantics to avoid the idol worship of mary.
if it makes you feel good, go for it....but it is idol worship.
Ah! Look at that. Multiple definitions. Which means that it takes more than assigning a word to an action for it hold the meaning that some want it to. Conflation on display. But rather than admit the sin of Calumny the protestant will persist in their sin. God will not look favorably upon those supposed of His followers who bore false witness.