The Catholic & Eastern Orthodox Churches hold that there is to be veneration of saints, relics, angels, images & Mary.
They have 3 levels of worship:
1) Dulia (for the lower objects of worship)
2) Hyperdulia (for the worship of Mary)
3) Latria (for the Trinity)
* Dulia is about veneration/degrees of reverence
* Latria is sacrificial
2nd Council of Nice (787A.D.) declared "Whatever venerable churches have been consecrated without holy relics of martyrs, shall have a deposit of relics made in them with the accustomed prayer. And if...any bishop shall be found consecrating a church without holy relics, let him be deposed."
But what does God say? Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Revelation 14:7
They have 3 levels of worship:
1) Dulia (for the lower objects of worship)
2) Hyperdulia (for the worship of Mary)
3) Latria (for the Trinity)
* Dulia is about veneration/degrees of reverence
* Latria is sacrificial
2nd Council of Nice (787A.D.) declared "Whatever venerable churches have been consecrated without holy relics of martyrs, shall have a deposit of relics made in them with the accustomed prayer. And if...any bishop shall be found consecrating a church without holy relics, let him be deposed."
Sidenote: Within the Anglican Churches (in America the Episcopalian Church) there has been controversy over adoration of saints. Some pray to the saints and some don't. The controversy stems from the interpretation about adoration of the saints in article 22 of the Anglican faith:It reads as follows- HE Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, worshipping and adoration as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saint, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture; but rather repugnant to the word of God.
But what does God say? Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Revelation 14:7
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, o
r any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them,
nor serve them:
Deuteronomy 5:8,9