Your "attempt" to answer my question was with a tradition contained in scripture to which you boast...That is because you and every other Catholic and Orthodox Church members fail to answer the question.
Okay! So let's get on with it. Most Protestants claim that we bow down and worship statues. WE DO NOT! Most Protestants have a problem with Mary, the Mother of Jesus. We keep her to the forefront, because she was the FIRST one to accept God's grace, no matter what; we refer to her as Theotokos (Mother of God) because we believe that since Jesus is God, and was God at His birth, she should be allowed a little bit more mention than the Protestants give her. You only trot her out on Christmas Eve, and then she goes back into her box until the next December 24.
We do not WORSHIP icons, either. They are the windows into heaven, where we can mystically glimpse God's Glory, or the Theotokos pointing to her son, etc.
We are also not acting like cannibals when we partake of the Eucharist. It is a mystical feast, a bloodless sacrifice. We confess to a priest because when he is hearing my confession, he is acting in Persona Christi--as if Christ was also standing in front of me. And He is, and forgiveness flows from Christ through the priest to me. We baptize infants because, as good parents, we want our children to have the full protection of God. We also Seal him with the Holy Spirit at the same time, and for the same reason. In Eastern Christian Churches, we also bring the child up to Communion from the day he is baptized, so that from that day on, the child can truly be raised AS A CHRISTIAN, because he IS a Christian. Because he is a child, we don't lay any burdens on him that he has to conform to.
We also raise our children to be good Christians, and we don't make them beg for cleansing and baptism as adults. ANY parent who does NOT do these things is playing with a loaded gun, HOPING the child won't go off the rails until that mythical "Age of Responsibility."
Shall I go on? There are all of the myths that Pre-Reformation Churches made all sorts of evil, and that the Pope is (ALWAYS) the anti-Christ. and the Catholic Church is behind the Masons, Shriners, Illuminati, the Priory of Sion and all the other myths that have been spun BY REFORMERS!
I haven't even begun on Protestant churches, yet. Why don't you start finding Scriptural reasons for:
Adult Baptism
Testimonies
Altar Calls
Invitation Hymns
The Holy Spirit always coming with the evidence of Tongues. My first experience with the Holy Spirit was prophecy, and not tongues, so that one is blown right there!
I can find lots more evidences of the non-Scriptural behavior of the Reformers NOT following God's Word, but making up their own TRADITIONS!