Have you stopped beating your wife? This is not a legitimate question after I said that the Roman Catholic Church was non-existent before approx. 300ad. Your question wrongly presumes that the Roman Catholic Church (an institution of dubious character) is the "Church" to which Jesus refers. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is just more of the self-proving fraud perpetrated by Rome.
Jesus was referring to the "assembly" of believers that He would build, an assembly which includes believers as far back as Adam, Abraham, Moses, et al. There is no such word as "church" in the Scriptures. The word is a derivative some say of the Scottish word "kirk" or some such thing. The Roman translation from Greek to English brings eklasia, or assembly, a common word meaning "public assembly collected together" into a trademarked word that Scripture does not support. Sorry. Your turn.
“I said that the Roman Catholic Church was non-existent before approx. 300ad.”
What is your source for this assertion?
By Church, capital C, I am referring to the Roman Catholic church.
Now, if you are asserting that the Roman Catholic Church was founded around 300 AD, what is your source for this assertion?
Who founded it? Where was it founded? How was it founded? Why then?
Right now, all we have is that this is what Dutchboy88 says happened. That’s simply not good enough. Where’s your source for all this, Dutchboy? Why are you being so damn evasive?