I don't pretend, I know its true. There is no evidence to prove otherwise.
To simply state something with conviction is not a proof.
That's what we've been telling Protestants for all these many threads. The Catholic/Orthodox posters have the history, tradition and witness of the early church from the time of Christ to the present. The Protestant story is at best 500 years old and is a hodgepodge of conflicting beliefs.
Please show me, from the time of Christ or even from the apostolic age (not your apostolic age, but the apostolic age commonly defined by Christians) statements for transubstantiation, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the primacy of the papacy (or even the existence of the papacy). That should be a good start. The simple fact of the matter is that (as JH is pointing out) you have a gap of several hundreds of years where you say you were flourishing and your doctrine was already established but you have no evidence. That's a problem. And your stating otherwise will not make it so.
I believe what I believe. However, I do offer others the courtesy that I do not know everything. You do not seem to hold Protestants in too high a regard, but I'm not sure how your attitude is all that different from the caricature that you paint of them.
"Anyone that believes Baptists' have been around since Apostolic times lives in a fantasy world and can't be taken seriously.
Nice Christan response: kind, factually correct, and well documented - LOL!
Anyone like you that DOES NOT believe those original Believers who were first called Christians at Antioch (Acts 11:26), and sometimes Nazarenes (Acts 24:5) were Baptists are ignorant of history by false teaching or by choice, and most probably live in a fantasy world full of Roman Catholic fables! You just cannot deal with TRUTH - especially when it does not agree with your opinion or the RC church(sic).
I am not making any judgements about any religion or church, just suggesting a good read.