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The Catholic Church would never have made it through lo these two thousand years without that divine commission, and because the Lord willed it so, it has - and the gates of Hell shall not prevail. He hand-selected this man Peter! And the Church was built! Amen.

< Since God did not ordain the Muslim religion, just how did that last for the last 1600 years?

How about Confucianism? That is OLDER than Christianity, did God ordain that, too?

Zoroastrianism?

God did not ordain any false religion, and almost ALL false religions still exist that existed in the centuries before Christ's birth.