Like it or not, admit it or not, if you are a Christian in America you are a descendant of one of the branches of that tree. Go ahead and claim otherwise but the only one you’d be fooling is yourself.
Now there is the level of study and forethought we have come to expect from Catholics. Did you really give much thought at all before you posted that? Do you not believe that there are and have been many gatherings (ecclesia) of Christians who have never been affiliated with any formal organization or denomination? Have they not converted those outside of the faith who now are Christians but still not affiliated with any formal organization or denomination and have never been?
In addition, regardless of whether someone was a part of any one of those organizations the fact that they have left that particular organization because they saw the error of the teaching is a testament to the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives. Scripture is replete with warnings to not associate with those “churches” who teach error. It would matter not which one of those organization one was brought up in as long as they have learned the true teaching of scripture and left them. They would then be no longer associated with them.
>>Go ahead and claim otherwise but the only one you’d be fooling is yourself.<<
How arrogant! No one today could possibly be a Christian, a true believer, follower of Christ without one of those organizations? And don’t give me that “without the Catholic Church no one would have the Bible” drivel. To think that God couldn’t have or wouldn’t have made sure His word was available for us today is pure arrogance and a total lack of faith in the very word of God.