“The Hebrews hold Torah as the ultimate authority.”
I’m not bound by Hebrew practice or lack thereof. And neither is any other Christian. I eat pork and like it.
“None of the pagan practices of praying to the dead or for the dead is mentioned in Torah, the Prophets or even the Writings.”
Irrelevant. Many Christian things are not mentioned in the Old Testament.
“So linking such necessary functions of human life to non Torah and non NT practices is a fallacious premise.”
No, it is not.
Read my post #24, Mathematician Ivan Panin discovered the heptadic structure in scripture. All scripture has it, each book, cross books, new and old testament, both hebrew and greek, and even though the scripture was written down by 40 authors over a period of 2000 years. It cannot be reproduced even with the aid of computers. None, absolutely none of the apocryphal books have this structure. Therefore, as you rightly state, they are not inspired scripture.
Sure it is. The entire premise is equivocation.
In one hand your cohorts appeal to post 70AD Jewish oral law and ignore the tradition that written Torah was always authoritative.