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.
Wide is the road!
>> those things were done by mortal Christian men who were inspired BY God<<
Like I said. God used Judas also. And Herod and lots of people who were in error and opposition to God.
>> 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<<
It’s called the universal body of Christ and Christ is the leader. It’s the exact same as the apostles started in that we use only what the apostles taught.
>> (even though the apostles rejected all your protestant doctrines)<<
What’s a Protestant? Methodist? Luthern? Non denominational? LDS? How about the Episcopalian? Protestant is simply Catholic light.
>> What apostle started your church, and who is his modern day successor that carries on the church in present-day?<<
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
>> That's why the founder of my church is Jesus Christ<<
Then show where Jesus Christ taught the assumption of Mary, veneration of saints, or praying to other than the Father. If you can’t, you are preaching another gospel with all it’s ramifications.
>> It preaches the Old and New Testaments,<<
Then show where the apostles taught the things listed in the point above.