Actually Plinyelder what do you think are the number of people who believe exactly as you do...that is the number of people who are taught just as you have displayed in that link to me.(http://www.thewordsofeternallife.com/cross.html)All those things contained on that page. My guess is very minute. A further guess is that it has always been minute. Yes I believe that you would always count a certain cross section of Christians as being in your camp. But there is hardly anyone that believes as you do. Your probably non-denominational and you have a ‘historic view’ of the lineage of the first Christians as being devoted to symbols
and practices of paganism and false gods and not being rooted in Christ. Of course this view, makes your beliefs all the more credible.
Your argument is spurious at best.
Are you going to try to convince me and others that the more people that believe in a certain way .. are the ones who know best?
Remember the Broad Road that Jesus spoke of or The Narrow Path?
I think that Jesus himself, struck down that very argument with this parable?