He established His Church and said He would remain with it for all time and that the gates of Hell would not prevail upon it; He sent the Holy Spirit upon it to teach it all truth; He told Saul that Saul was persecuting HIM:...Scripture calls the Church the Pillar and Ground of Truth and Jesus says He who hears you hears me..and, it turns out, all of that was a pack of lies.
Apparently,He failed. His word went forth and returned void.
Worse, it didn't return void, did it?
For if you're correct, His Church mislead billions of Christians and they all went to Hell until the 16th century.
But, then that would make Jesus Satan.
I forget in Scripture where Jesus establishes His Church and teaches it will lie and lead Christians into Hell until more than Fifteen Centuries after His Resurrection when a violent, vow-breaking, Jew-hating, drunk will be raised up...
In any event, it is an interesting thesis
Crikey!
Let me make this perfectly clear. Not one member of the Invisible Church of Christ (i.e., the body of True Believers in Jesus Christ) will ever spend a day in Hell. The institution known as the Roman Catholic Church does have members of the Body of Christ in it, but the institution known as the Roman Catholic Church is not the Body of Christ.
And Baptists (in spirit and in truth) have been around since Pentecost and many of those who call themselves Baptists are also members of the Church of Christ.
So get off your high horse. Salvation resides in Christ and not in some building in Rome.