In King James, in Genesis 37:10, the word for “bow” (shachah) is translated as “worshipped” 99 times! 17 times it is translated as “make obeisance.” That’s what you shall not do to any image of stone: worship it, or obey it. To say that a Catholic worships a statue is preposterous. For comparison, the pagan priests credited golden statues with wills of their own; Daniel, for one, needed to prove that the statues were mere rock. The pagan places themselves in service of the idol; the Catholic joins the Saint in service of God.
Lowering one’s head in prayer is “qadad.” Frequently, the bible makes two separate verbs out of “lowered his head (qadad) and worshipped” because these are two separate actions.
But yet you bow down to and pray to these statues...Like you say, the bible calls it worship, you say that's preposterous...
Why would one reject the bible's position/definition and accept yours???