Saints, Images, and Relics
Rome teaches believers to ask the saints in heaven for their prayers and to venerate images and relics, but Scripture calls every believer a saint, forbids bowing to images, and gives every child of God direct access to the Father through Christ, the one Mediator.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
Who the saints are in Scripture, and what Rome means by canonization
What Rome teaches about asking the saints to pray, and why Scripture directs all prayer to God through Christ
What the Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed about images, and how the second commandment answers it
Why relics are not to be venerated, and how to honor faithful believers as Scripture does