Be that as it may, conflating practice with theology is a mistake.
When it comes down to it, the theological dividing line is “works,” and it’s only a line because Revisionists insist on a formula for works no where validated in Scripture.
Christianity didn't start under Rome, nor did the Apostles teach at least half of what Rome teaches.
No, but Christianity did grow into Rome, like it or not. And the apostles may not have taught half of what Rome teaches, but Newton didn’t teach half of what Hawking teaches, either.
I could not disagree with your opinion any more than I do.Rome teaches salvation by works with grace added by those works via sacraments. A view never presented in the NT - neither sacraments, nor the granting of grace by completing these sacraments. To this, they add many pagan practices that moved from Greeks to Romans to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Bible teaches saving faith by grace with a changed life that follows. Faith that doesn't have works following, is dead. Christ's new life after new birth, expresses itself in fruit.
No, it did not.
God has always had His "that have not bowed the knee to Baal."
Romanism is a separate religion that combines pagan beliefs and practices with teachings from the Bible. This doesn't save anyone.