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I agree that Christ is not the founder of a denomination He established a Church, a Church which He chose as the vehicle to deliver the canon of Scripture, several hundred years after He founded the Church. If He meant to leave us a book as a guide rather than a Church, I would think that He might have said something like “ this is my book against which the gates of hell shall not prevail and this book shall be the pillar and ground of truth where you take your arguments too in order that they be settled...”
He gave us a discernible, visible Church first for a reason.

That makes perfect sense, to a natural mind. By Faith I know that such natural things don't apply. The Church remains as it is described in the bible, "The Body of Christ". It is not Rome and it is not a wafer. I believe you are stuck in the Catholic definition and are not keenly aware of the way the word Church is used in the bible.

The funny thing is that a Catholic will agree that the church is the body of Christ and includes all believers, but it is also a discernible, visible organization that He established to preserve and spread the good news of salvation. It seems to me that the fullest understanding of what "church" is, is held by Catholics. Non-Catholics, excluding the Orthodox, lack a more complete understanding because they have to, by necessity, reject the singular organizational aspects of "church".