"Given that the Roman Catholic Church is, by far, the largest denomination of Christianity and one of the oldest," . . The oldest, St. Peter was the first Pope. If it wasn't for Catholics, Baptists or even Lutherans would have nothing to read.
"Baptists or even Lutherans would have nothing to read."
And nothing to revise into yet-another edition of the New Testament...
That's nonsense...Church history does exhist outside of the Catholic Church...And a great deal of it...Manuscripts for the King James Bible (the Bible of the Reformation) came out of Antioch, Syria, where people were first called Christians...The history of your bible as well as most other bibles goes back and thru Alexendria, Egypt...
Your group during the dark ages murdered my goup's men, women, children and un-born babies because we wouldn't bow down to your pope...
Please don't connect my Christianity with yours...They have very little in common...
They'd still have Left Behind. ;)