>>23354543>>Here are lies about the ChurchI know papists are allergic to reading but the Vatican's website has been cited multiple times ITT.
>2131 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.>2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it."70 The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone:>Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. the movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.71So in the 8th Century (what Romanists refer to as "the Early Church") they decided that bowing to statues and paintings was ok as long as they called it "veneration" of "icons" rather than "worship" of "idols." It's literally a semantical argument. Like I said, it's just lawyerizing the Holy Scripture to fit a pagan square peg in a round Christian hole.
