[RnMomof7]

apples and oranges The early church was universal but it was not "roman "catholic.. The church as they knew it was much closer to what would be a protestant service than a catholic one..

[wagglebee]

The early church was universal but it was not "roman "catholic.. The church as they knew it was much closer to what would be a protestant service than a catholic one..

Do you actually have anything to back up this claim or is it just something you WANT to be true?

[Natural Law]

"The church as they knew it was much closer to what would be a protestant service than a catholic one.."

Fruit analogies have nothing to do with it. There is an unbroken succession of popes from Peter I to Benedict XVI within the Catholic Church guided by the Holy Spirit through the process of Apostolic Succession. If you concede that the Holy Spirit worked with as you say the "early church" you have to explain how the Holy Spirit stopped working with the same institution. The answer is you can'.

[Iscool]

apples and oranges The early church was universal but it was not "roman "catholic.. The church as they knew it was much closer to what would be a protestant service than a catholic one..

And if God had 'already' set up a base from which to operate on this earth, it would have been Jerusalem, NOT the pagan capital of the world at the time, Rome...

[Cronos]

what would be a protestant service than a catholic one..

Closer to WHICH Protestant service? A Baptist one? Or a Pentecostal Hallelujah one? Or a Methodist one? Or a Christian Scientist, red from the Bible one? Or an Anglican/Lutheran service? Or a Quaker-style meeting?