God physically manifest, incarnation, is more apparent. This is a greater closeness that God has extended. It is God by His own Will, reaching out towards you.
It is easier to approach Him that way, than to worship Him as Brahman.
In Hinduism, we understand God on many levels. The most hardest to reach state of God, is Brahman. Even the Supreme Being/Ishvara is a being that interacts and has actions, acting upon the material universe and therefore easier to worship than Brahman. It is easier to connect with Ishvara than with Brahman.
One of the reasons for worship of objects, is because they are easy.
You're unfortunate, you need help, you need to turn to someone, you search for a person/thing which you think can help of your given situation(which basically is an approach that one should direct to God) and you see a Saint/statue of a supernatural thing and you pray. It's simple.
When you try to connect with Brahman, but you go through life, stuff happens, its negative, you get upset. What happens is you withdraw yourself from Brahman.
The Abrahamics seem to want to worship God (not too sure) but to them idolatry is unacceptable. So they worship through intense sound worship (which they blast). That also is idolatry. There can be no such thing as "divine language", there are differences in human languages, because they are born out of the nature of the speakers, who are men. There is the reception of that which is understood and there is the attempt at conveying of it. Words are still limited. Due to the sheer variability and man made nature of language, language too is not the ultimate tool to turn towards God. Its a crutch.
Only Rishis were able to worship beyond the 5 senses steadily.
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