The thing about Catholics being Protestant forefathers won’t wash. The canonical text were established as the Word of God based on Petrine authority. That Petrine authority did not vanish eleven centuries after the Synod of Rome in AD 382.
Why is it “puffery” when intellectuals from all stripes, from all nations, and from all countries and persuasions convert to Catholicism? That they all converge at one singular conclusion is telling. It’s like when all mathematicians agree on a matter of science.
Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox Catholics don't share common forefathers in the faith. I suppose that you'll claim the Hebrews 11 saints as exclusive Roman Catholic property as well.
The canonical text were established as the Word of God based on Petrine authority.
So Paul's letter to the Galatians, for example, wasn't the Word of God until AD 382 and got the Pope's seal of approval?
The charge of puffery refers to your habit of lavishing fawning praise on the people whose opinions you want to promote. If someone is renowned, why do you have to tell everyone? Either the person is renowned and it is unnecessary and condescending to say so or he or she isn't renowned and you proclaiming so is self-serving or dishonest.
Why not?
...don't they?
If it had NOT been the heinous SINS of the Catholic leadership, the Protestants would have had NOTHING to protest!
Rome created us.
Too bad.