In the context of the people who attempted to worship St. Paul, they clearly believed him to be the incarnation of a pagan deity, and he corrected them.
In the case of the Angel in Revelation, the Angel again had to inform St. John that he was only a fellow servant.
When Abraham bowed to the people of Hebron, there was no rebuke, because he was not under any false impression that they were deities. He was simply showing them honor, which is what we do to holy things, such as the Book of the Gospels, and what Jews do to the Torah Scroll, or even to their prayer books.
Regardless, the apostles and angels did not merely correct the wrong thinking. They stopped the wrong act.
But your position, as best I can tell, is that it is not only okay to bow toward angels and apostles and their likenesses as long as it is not intended as worship... but oh yeah, it is impossible to have wrong intentions about these things because angels and the apostles and Mary were real and not false gods. Sorry, your logic is terribly fragile.