Speaking of history, do you have the date (from history) of the founding of the Catholic Church?
I’m just curious because I used to teach history and am adamantly against the revision of history. Sadly, most of the textbooks written today are horribly full of “agendized,” revisionist nonsense (thus, the huge numbers of ignorant voters).
No, not at my fingertips.
But it has been explained many times on threads here in the RF from an historical perspective.
From This Link:
...the idea of the "pope" did not exist from the beginning of the church. It was not until several centuries after Christ that the church began to develop into the "Roman Catholic Church" as we think of it todayInteresting enough, earlier on that page is this:
For the first thousand years of Christianity there was no "Roman Catholicism" as we know it today...There was only the "one, holy, catholic church" affirmed by the early creeds, which was the body of Christian believers all over the world, united by common traditions, beliefs, church structure and worship (catholic simply means "universal"). Thus, throughout the Middle Ages, if you were a Christian, you belonged to the Catholic Church. Any Christianity other than the Catholic Church was a heresy, not a denomination.See the areas I put in bold and notice how "catholic" was changed to "Catholic" in order to start the misconception that the Catholic Church we know of in this day and age is the supreme "mother church" to which all must belong to be saved.
you'll have to work with the Gregorian calander I guess and come up with an exact date....figure out what year it was when Christ said to Simon Bar-jona....Thou art peter and upon this rock I build My church.....that should bring you right to the date!!!