Interesting how it’s only Catholics that believe that.
>> Thanks to the RCC wiping out that brand of "Christianity", we have true Christian doctrines today like the correct canon of the Bible and the Nicene Creed. You can thank us later.<<
How utterly arrogant! And I suppose we should venerate Judas because he helped get Jesus crucified so we have salvation also? Catholics taking credit for what God has done will have it’s own punishment no doubt.
>> Who survived? It certainly wasn't YOUR brand of Christianity, since it didn't exist yet.<<
The church I belong to is much older than the RCC. It was started by the apostles.
Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
Colossians 4:15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Philemon 1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
We see the RCC which was established hundreds of years later this way.
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
>> Yes, which is why the Catholic Church can trace its lineage back 2000 years to the original apostles, through an unbroken chain<<
That is if you believe the tall tales of men. A long line of word of mouth which we all know has never been reliable. The RCC claims “special knowledge and tradition” or “special revelation” which is common among cults. Jim Jones, David Koresh, Joseph Smith, Mohamed, also claimed knowledge not contained in scripture. The RCC is no different and may be worse. The amalgamation of paganism and Christianity is what God calls whoring around and has a specific call for His people to “come out of her”.
I’ll abide by the words of the apostles and “search the scriptures daily” to see if the things they teach are true and if the apostles didn’t teach it will consider those who preach “another gospel” to be accursed.
I take it you've never met an Orthodox Christian in your life? There are 300 million of them in the world, and they're also be happy to explain to you that protestant churches were started in the 1600s and are NOT the "original church" started by Jesus. They, like Catholics, also believe in venerated the Virgin Mary and salvation through faith and works, which protestants falsely claim only "Catholics" believe. Perhaps you need to talk to an Orthodox Christian minister sometime and educate yourself about Christian theology.
>> Catholics taking credit for what God has done will have it’s own punishment no doubt. <<
God wrote the Nicene Creed and provided a modern bible with all the books in the correct order? I'm pretty sure even your fellow protestants won't agree with you there, and admit those things were done by mortal Christian men who were inspired BY God, rather being directly given to us by God himself.
>> The church I belong to is much older than the RCC. It was started by the apostles. <<
Really? Why don't you tell us all the name of your denomination and who the leader is, and explain HOW its the exact same church the apostles had (even though the apostles rejected all your protestant doctrines), and existed all these years even though nobody ever heard of your doctrines until 1800 years AFTER Christ walked the earth.
If you try to duck the question and claim to be started by the apostles merely because your church is "Christian", it has as much validly as a guy opening a hamburger chain down the block this week, and claiming his chain invented the hamburger. Anyone can call themselves Christian and CLAIM to have the same faith as the apostles, that doesn't make it so. What apostle started your church, and who is his modern day successor that carries on the church in present-day?
>> That is if you believe the tall tales of men. A long line of word of mouth which we all know has never been reliable. <<
Very true. That's why the founder of my church is Jesus Christ, rather that a man like John Calvin, John Wesley, or numerous other protestant men who started their own church from scratch centuries after Christ, and falsely claimed it was the "original" church of the apostles.
>> it will consider those who preach “another gospel” to be accursed. <<
The Catholic Church does not preach "another gospel". It preaches the Old and New Testaments, and has been preaching them long before protestants started doing so in the 1600s.