let's see, those would be 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries...before that noboby considered it at all. But thanks to the enlightened Martin Luther and his ilk, we now know better than did Christians for the first 1,600 years of their religion. I love it when people come along many thousands of years after an event and reinterpret it to suit their misguided beliefs.
Well, except Jesus, who condemned tradition saying that it was used to make the law of God of no effect:
(Matt 15:1-9)
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”
He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’ then that person need not honor the father. So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God. You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’”
Jesus said "It is written Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God"
Matt 4:4 NKJV
So I can believe you OR Jesus. Not really a hard choice for me.