The Church has lasted 2000 years since it’s founding by Christ, in an unbroken line. All attempts by Satan to wean people away has died like the rest of Satan’s creations: Arianism, Gnosticism, “reformed” groups — the only one still a threat is Islam and that is fighting itself.
RUBBER HISTORIES and sloppy shallow rationalizations
do NOT
=
truth.
The RC edifice has been around approximately 1600 years.
That’s the truth.
And that 1600 years has been a very, VERY checkered existence, (to be kindly putting it).