The First Commandment & Worship

Q. What constitutes worship?
A. Adoration, prayer and sacrifice.
Q. Is bowing down an act of worship?

A. It can be. But Christian Europeans bowed and knelt before their kings and queens
and it was not considered worship but simply honor and respect. It is what is in the heart that determines the difference between an act of worship [...]

Idol Worship, Statues in Churches, and the 2nd Commandment

Q. Why has the Catholic church changed the Second Commandment?…set no graven image before me nor the likeness thereoff? Is this , again, adding to the Word of God.
A. You have taken a phrase out of context from Exodus 20 and the Ten Commandments. Let’s take a look at the whole commandment first—in context. [...]