If the Catholic Church had ended in 1000 AD no one on the planet would have heard of Jesus Christ by 1500.
Baloney.
God is responsible for the spread of the gospel and the protection of His word.
If the Catholic church had disappeared from the face of the earth in 1,000 AD, many people would have been spared the misery of its sordid history.
The Inquisition would never have happened and many kids would not have been molested and abused.
“If the Catholic Church had ended in 1000 AD no one on the planet would have heard of Jesus Christ by 1500.”
Ah, I hear the growing of the Roman Rooster, bragging that he makes the sun rise by his efforts.
I refer you to history outside your church to see your statement is incorrect.
It is true that Rome worked very hard to slaughter Christian believers outside Catholicism.
Thankfully, there were true believers outside any that may have been in Rome.
God has *always* had His people who haven’t blended the knee to Baal.
2 Kings 22
And so your logic is that the historical instruments and stewards of Divine revelation (oral and written) means that such are the infallible authorities on what it means, and thus are to be submitted to? If not, of what polemical weight does your statement have?