I have no problem with that at all...but if you really believe in Jesus, then it would be nice if YOU FOLLOWED HIS INSTRUCTIONS...that would be Catholicism...about 1,600 years earlier that the protestant revolution!!!
Jesus’ supposed talk about the Roman Catholic Church quite conveniently got written down nowhere by any pre-Roman witness. The present day organization arrogates to itself self-referential statements from manuscripts that predate it.
The “protestant” revolution was the reappearance of Captain Obvious. The Word of God, those old manuscripts that were to a one all penned before there was a Roman Catholic Church, is sufficient.
This is a powerful thing, and by no means insignificant.
From scriptures you may be able to claim that the Roman Catholic Church is “a” Christian body. There are theological disputes even about this, even though most modern evangelicals will give obviously Christ worshiping members of the RCC the benefit of that doubt.
But NOT, that it is “THE” Christian body.
The RCC went off the rails; and we are the result of that.
Nice try with the Counter Reformation; but the veil had been lifted by then and your seeming lock on everything Christian was gone forever.
You are wasting your time trying to fight with us now, as we ain't that far apart in belief.
Practice - a bit more so, as you guys have lots of extraneous stuff dragging you down.
Try going after a source of REAL heresy: MORMONism.