Should say...."New Testament Church was"....
Thanks.
Well, we come down once more to the real point of it all.
The New Testament is the creation of the Catholic Church. She alone had the authority to write it and she alone has the authority to interpret it. There is more to the Church of Christ on Earth than the Bible, since many decisions were made before the Scriptures were finally written, but not covered in the Bible. Remember that much of the New Testament was written well after the fact, but many of the decisions were made BEFORE the writings were actually done.
Perhaps, there should have been another section of the Bible that lists all the decisions made up until Nicea. That would have put many of the Protestant objections to bed before they even started. It would not have completely addressed the motivation towards a replacement of God-given instructions by man-made ones, but it would have helped.