"Who, looking at an acorn, would know that it had an oak in it? And acorn bears little resemblance to an oak after all.The Church has had almost 2k years to grow. A body of around 1,000,000,000 members is bound to look different from body of at most a few tens of thousands of members. But it may not be reasonable to rely on appearances."
An argument was made suggesting that it doesn't LOOK like the Church. I addressed that argument.
I'm a Catholic. Of course I think the Catholic Church is "The" Church (speaking loosely). You're not a Catholic, of course you don't agree. Your post merely restates your disagreement. That disagreement lies at the heart of many of these conversations. Restating that there IS a disagreement doesn't move the argument along.
That's how it looks to me, anyway.
***But an Oak Tree still has Acorn DNA in it.***
There are many Protestant denominations and entities that have no Christian DNA in them.