What makes a Bible corrupted? Try this on for size. In Exodus 20:2-17 are the Ten Commandments. Verse 4 states; "You shall not make for yourselves a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." (NKJV) Carved image - statues; in heaven above (angels, cherubims).
In the catholic bible this is not present, it was deleted. Why? Because it isn't considered a traditional catechetical formula in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church.
We know that God forbids worship (bowing down to) manmade images of heavenly things/beings. We know that the RCC claims that catholics are not worshiping the statue, that the statue is only a reminder that these people once existed on earth, and that prayer to them is for special intercession to God by them for the petitioner. Isn't this just an "end - run" to God's commandment, to confuse the congregant into thinking that it is OK to so because those people (depicted by the image) are "holy" and therefore allowed to be prayed to?
