A Catholic Defender said that Catholics can pray w/o any image

Read the statement I encircled in red.

If Catholics can worship w/o any statues to be use, I think the Catholic Church should implement on their worship service w/o the use of statues from now on.

In the Torah, it is forbidden to put any graven images near the Lord's altar:

Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Deuteronomy 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

What God ordered to make graven images in his temple are what the Spirit of God told to King David: (WHICH CANNOT BE SEEN INSIDE THE CHURCHES OF CATHOLICISM OF COURSE!)

1 Chronicles 28:12  And the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, of all the chambers all around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries for the dedicated things;

1 Chronicles 28:19 “All this,” said David, “the Lord made me understand in writing, by His hand upon me, all the works of these plans.”

These are:

1 Kings 7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 7:29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

1 Chronicles 28:18 and refined gold by weight for the altar of incense, and for the construction of the chariot, that is, the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

God really forbids his servants to make graven images especially to kneel down like can be seen on these pictures:

Leviticus 26:1 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

In fact, putting a graven image even in a SECRET PLACE, God said to that man is BE CURSE!

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Jesus taught the Christians to worship God in Spirit (read John 4:24)

We do not need a graven image to be use in worshipping God.

BTW, God really hates it when the early Israelites used a graven image for the purpose to glorify God in a festival.

Nehemiah 9:16 “But they and our fathers acted proudly, Hardened their necks, And did not heed Your commandments.

Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to obey, And they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.But they hardened their necks, And in their rebellion
They appointed a leader To return to their bondage. But You are God, Ready to pardon,
Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, Abundant in kindness, And did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

What God can say about making graven images of male and female likeness like the Catholic statues?

Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

See, God said that they are CORRUPTED!