Good point. Also the epistles were written while the temple works and sacrifice were still happening in history of two thousand years ago. So Paul is comparing the old with the new testament while the old is still being lived by jews of that era. Today reformation people read it wrong. It is out its time.
What do you expect when you had ignorant Germans, Dutch and Englishmen trying to imagine life in Semitic Palestine in the 1st century? Instead of restoring something they founded a mutant version of Christianity that had nothing to do with the early Church.
I think they polemics are hard-pressed to explain what the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East’s polity and faith is closer to that of the Church of Rome than theirs.
They never knew any sort of union of Church and State because they were persecuted by Constantine’s successors for their questionable Christology. They never were affected by scholasticism except when the Portuguese unsuccessfully tried imposing it on them.
These churches believe in the episcopacy of divine right, the same 7 sacraments as the Church of Rome, praying for the dead, the same view of faith and works, the corporeal presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, etc.
I find I can attend a Coptic Orthodox Bible study with very few disagreements compared with if I were to attend an Evangelical Bible study that looks at the Bible without any cultural, political, or historical contexts.
The common American Evangelical view of the apostles is that they were white Americans who looked and thought like them.