Could you give me the right number to your denomination?
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Certainly...
Those rescued by Grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, applied to all of the elect from the foundation of the World.
Year established: Unknown but about the time of Adam
The founder? God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Looks like we win...
More the pity that the Catholic Church, under the Bishop of Rome, decided to break away from the Orthodox...
You see, the real problem isn’t with Catholic Doctrine circa 400AD, although some errors were creeping in. The real problem has come from A) an ever-increasing sense of self-importance by the Bishop of Rome, and B) a belief that doctrine develops or ‘unfolds’ over time, so that things not thought of in 50 AD are dogma now.
That evolving dogma first drove away the Orthodox, who refused further to evolve any further (and they had gone too far already), and later forced the Reformers to completely split away.
In 33 AD, Jesus talked about assemblies of people. The NT talks about deacons and elders of congregations. While I understand how elders grew in importance in combating heresy, its flaw was that a hierarchical structure can be turned bad - increasing heresy - by one bad man easier than can a large group of congregations.
Jesus promised the assembly of believers that are His body wouldn’t fail. He gave no promise to an organization that didn’t exist, and that was not authorized by the Apostles. Hence your basic premise is flawed.
No serious review of history would say the Catholic Church started in 33 AD. It was in embryo form in 330 AD, and didn’t start to mature until perhaps 600 AD, as the Bishop of Rome took ever greater power to himself.
The Orthodox stayed truer to their roots, so it would be more accurate to say the Catholic Church was founded in 1054, after it broke away from the Orthodox in the east.