Trinity is an example of an accretion most prots accept. It isn't explicit in the Bible.
The threefold hierarchy is something explicitly in the Bible most prots reject, and definitely not the further details recorded in Clenent, Ignatius, the Didache or elsewhere.
Go read about the Arc, the Bronze Serpent, and the Temples ang get back to me on that. Paul is against idols, which are not the same.
Where does Paul speak against baptism? He himself baptized people. A household is the extended family & slaves (and their families) it's virtually impossible that Cornelius's, Lydia's, AND the Phillipian Jailor's households were all child-free. I'd like to see the verse where Paul says you don't need baptism for salvation or even don't baptize babies. They do not exist.
There is a difference between necromancy (Saul's sin when he goes to the Witch of Endor) and praying to saints or for the dead. You cut several books from the Christian Bible. 2 Macabees 28, part of the Christian Bible, is crystal clear that prayer for the dead is a good thing.
God is the God of the living and not of the dead. His saints are alive in heaven and stand before His throne. Paul calls the saints a great cloud of witnesses. As we are supposed to ask each other to pray for us, intercessory prayer is a reasonable inference along the lines of Trinitarian phrasing.
I appreciate the substantive reply, thank you.
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