You should be able to make a case for a visible denomination.Fortunately you and your religion don't get to make up the rules...The churches in the scriptures didn't have names...They were simply named, church...
As the churches grew and branched out or where there were doctrinal differences, the churches split and gave themselves names so people could identify the different churches...
If Corinth had divided into a hundred churches because of their size, each church would have developed its own name for identity and location just as your religion has...
There are building where the church meets...People call these churches but the real church is the people who attend the church building...It's no different with your religion...There are Catholic buildings all over the place where the church meets, however small the percentage of Christians there may be...
I have posted clear scripture that no one apostle had any more authority than another and there is plenty of scripture to back up what I say about the churches...
Fortunately you and your religion don't get to make up the rules...The churches in the scriptures didn't have names...They were simply named, church... Is the church you attend simply named "church" or is it denoted with accompanying nouns and/or adjectives ?
- About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?” “Yes,” she said, “that is the price.” Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.” At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
- And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- Notice that Peter spoke this woman and her husband to death. Can you identify another Apostle who exercised this awesome leadership ? Who does it remind us of ?
- look up the quoted text of Acts 5:11 "all the church" in the Greek and you will see partial origins of the term "Catholic." See also Acts 9:31 [ekklesia….Kata..Holos..the] = the Catholic Church. kata holos is also found in Luke 4:14; Luke 23:5; Acts 9:42; Acts 10:37. for more complete constructs that led to the word name Catholic. [Middle English catholik, universally accepted, from Old French catholique, from Latin catholicus, universal, from Greek katholikos, from katholou, in general : kat-, kata-, down, along, according to; see cata- + holou (from neuter genitive of holos, whole; see sol- in Indo-European roots).]