“Ok so at what point after 100 AD did praying to saints get “introduced”? And by whom? And did anyone object?”
We know it isn’t in the Bible. We know the NT church didn’t practice it. We know it was added later. We know it is a pagan practice.
For any believer in Christ that is enough to disregard it and to object to it.
If you are interested in the historical development of catholic syncretism in regards to pagan culture, I thimk you should pursue it with gusto.
If you are interested in following Christ, I think you shouldn’t practice it.
Balderdash, we don’t know any of that. It is an invented story that the Reformers concocted to justify their sins of schism and heresy.
Notice one thing Calvin apparently didn’t mention in his treatise on relics? The handkerchiefs of St. Paul from Acts 19:12. And if you read his first chapters you will notice they are heavy on declarations of opinion, not so heavy on quotations to back his arguments up.
Remember, Tertullian scoffed at incense and birthdays because they were pagan. St. Monica was told that bringing food to the dead was superstitious and so she stopped doing it. This was a hot-button issue.
And then some unnamed persons at some vague undefined time introduce *idolatrous worship* into the Church across the whole world.....and no one notices? No one objects? It just slides gently under the radar and fools everyone around the world...for 1000 years?