You have to remember that when Christianity started, it was a new religion with no specific beliefs/traditions/practices. It was made up as they went. Were there some basics? Yes, but the sum total of Christianity didn't spring into being on the day of Pentecost. You also have to remember that the members of 1st century Christianity were Jews and pagans who were converted to Christ. And they all wanted to bring their own pet beliefs/practices/rituals with them and just do the same thing under a different name. You can see that happening in lots of places in the early church, but as it grew and people started understanding what Christ's teachings meant and learned to apply them in their daily lives, many of those practices had to go by the wayside. So just because something might have been believed/practised in early Christianity doesn't mean that it was a true and just practice/belief.
And just like you don't like the rehashing of tired arguments, neither do we. If you choose to ignore what happened historically and Biblically in Christianity, that does not mean that Christianity has put off valid practices/beliefs/traditions/rituals.
'Christianity' lost its way by following men, not Jesus ...Jesus NEVER created a mass religion but has only some tens of thousands of followers in some two millennia ... so about two thousand only are alive at any one time... FEW find the way -Matt 7:13-14- , this is NOT a mass religion, not 'Chrsitianity' then
understand then that Jesus himself revealed that mass religion is of Satan, not of him -Rev 13:3-4 - the many of mass religion cannot be saved now because they will not change their belief in Satan's lies of religious tradition of men :-
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
the test is NOT sincerity, many are sincerely deluded because they refuse to even check their beliefs against EVERY word of God let alone stop sinning so God can baptise them to know all Truth from Him -NOT from men...
quite simply no-one can get into teh kingdom without spirit baptism so one has to either stop sinning by choice in life now or be freed of sin by death like all sinners [religious or not, it makes no difference, sin is abuse not Love and Jesus and God command Love... consider, no sinner can be saved until they repent, stop sinning, grace covers only past sins, death removes one's life so one cannot learn to Love all folks [as God requires of all folks] until the next life...
But God is patient, 144,000 saints from thsi earth is all God required of Jesus' work because that is enough to create and run the kingdom come in the new earth where billions are later saved -Rev 7:9-10- by works after all are freed from hell -Rev 20:13 -[Jesus again contradicting 'Christianity' on this', the many are saved later, not now] ... the many are saved by works after death then, only teh few of this life are saved by grace of the new covenant with Israel's two nations [not just with the 'Jews'!- the House of Israel is far more numerous than the Jews, House of Judah - and jesus was sent by God ONLY to the House of Israel scattered amongst and living as gentiles...scattered worldwide worshiping idols [not Judaism then!] long before the Jews were scattered
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Matthew 15:24 But he [Jesus] answered and said, I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
so let us face it, FEW people even kniow who9 the House of Israel were , let alone that they are the MAJORITY of Israel and live as gentiles all over the world today...
so how could more than a few be saved now, Satan has deceived all who call themselves priests now and dress up in church buildings worldwide pretending to be holy as sinners and teaching sinners they are saved so long as the keep coming to pay the churches of men...
all seven churches of God were destroyed by the Romans when they set up fake Christianity, stealing Jesus title for their pagan religion of sun-day worship loosely camouflaged by modifying the scriptures somewhat [but not enough that the lies are not crystal clear to anyone who checks out every word as is required of sinners if they are not ready to stop sinning and learn from God as Jesus promised, but only to those who Love, not sin any more... following his way of Love ,not Satan's way of sin throughout life to prevent spirit baptism and answering of prayers by God]
so a common enough mistake, but lethal indeed, to msitajke religion to be about God and christ when it is Satan's toy for keeping men from spirit baptism, Truth from God , as promised by Jesus but NOT to anyone stuill sinning [as it would kill anyone still sinning- Satan knows this , most men do not realise that facing God in spirit baptism is lethal to sinners, so there would be no point in God doing what men ask ... it is just ignorance of sinners tocall on the name of God , but ther's the sadnes, many convince themselves they are saved [they do not even know that is God's judgment at Jesus' return for the few and later again at judgment day for the many, not for any man to say!]
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
thus God's few saints will never claim they are saints as it is God's decision ,not ours... and not now ...
and of course it is the same with folks who claim they are saved [because they were told by sinners in frocks], but of course no-one is saved before translation to spirit and that is God's decision, we cannot knwo, so it is a sin to presume God's judgement and proves one is not saved because one is still a sinner... sad but common enough...