Nope...the Catholic church was the Only Christian church for 1,600 years...denominations are named to give an identification to all the wannabees that sprang up over the years...in our city we have church of the heartland, new life alliance church, shiloh christian church, akron church of the brethren, Yorktown road church of Christ, Christian heritage fellowship church....nazarene chhurch,
God has his Church, men have theirs.
No Pope, Pastor or Televangelist can claim they are any closer to God than anyone else.
For there is no mediator between Man and God but Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 2:5
No, you don’t need to pray to patron saints, or get absolution, or visit the Pope, or send 50$ to a televangelist.
Denominationalism was a response to corruption of churches. When the day comes where we only have ONE church on the earth it WILL be the Anti-Christ’s church (and then, after that, Once Jesus puts things right, there will be God’s True Church)
Sorry, the Catholic Church was not born BEFORE CHRIST.
Prior to “church” there was only the Jewish Temple - or the heathen junk.
I don’t know who started or created the Catholic church; and quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a darn.
The Catholic church is still a “denomination” .. just like the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.
So, I’m done.
What about the churches that existed BEFORE 1,600 years ago, i.e., the Assyrian, Chaldean, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, all of which still exist today? They are "denominations" meaning organizations of local assemblies. AS is the Rome-Centric Catholic Church.