Got anything to add...........?
I wouldn’t know what to add; Perhaps “Amen”.
I find your thesis interesting and comprehensive in scope. Your interpretation accounts for many ostensible contradictions; many seem to prefer the contradictions to acknowledging just how off-course the mainstream church has gotten, however.
Most rebuttals (all that I have read thus far) have little more than a numbers argument to put forth, the fact that the majority of scholars disagree with your exegesis. This is the weakest of arguments imo. Matthew 22:14