[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ Already done above.”

Not a single verse showed an Apostle, or Christian, practice or teach prayer to anyone but God Himself.

“Of course, your interpretation won’t accept it.

When the actual text doesn’t say something, you can’t “interpret it into the text.

You claim this is true and important, yet it isn’t found in God’s Word.

Because it’s a pagan belief Rome adopted, like so many others.

[Antoninus]

Because it’s a pagan belief Rome adopted, like so many others.

Your claim that "Rome" imposed this belief on the Church is simply false. The Churches of the Greek east also practiced intercessory prayer as well as the veneration of relics.

But again, feel free to stick to your novel interpretation of Scripture based on the ramblings of johnny-come-latelys in the 16th century.