Actually, yes, yes we can.
As for Catholicism, well, shall we dispense with the obvious falsehood that it is actually built upon Christ and the Apostles? Catholicism arose as a syncretism between Christianity and paganism, and generally developed into its present form between the 5th-7th centuries.
Nice myth. Keeps the congregations in line down at Bible Baptist, keeps them from challenging what the minister says, keeps the money coming in the collection basket.
But it's still only a myth. All you have to do is read a little history to learn that, as Newman said, "to go deep into history is to cease to be Protestant".
Before 100 AD, we have the Didache saying that baptism may be conducted by pouring water on the head.
By 110 AD, we have Ignatius of Antioch, second bishop of Antioch after Peter, who knew the apostles personally, calling himself "Bishop of the Catholic Church in Syria" and saying that only a few heretics, of whom it is better not even to speak, deny that the Eucharist is the flesh and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
By 150 AD, we have Justin Martyr writing that old women are alive in his day who were baptized by the apostles. You do the math: they would have to have been baptized as little children. Origen would later write that baptizing infants is a "tradition we have received from the apostles".
By 180 AD, we have Irenaeus of Lyons writing that to maintain the Apostolic tradition, one must be in communion with the Roman see, and calling Mary the "New Eve," who undid by her obedience the knot tied by the first Eve's disobedience.
Shortly after that, we have Hyppolytus of Rome describing in great detail a Christian Sunday liturgy that sounds a lot like a Catholic Mass, so much so that when Rome revised the liturgy in 1970, they borrowed some prayers from him.
By 210 AD, we have Tertullian writing about how to go about picking a confessor.
And we're still have a century to go before the Arian heresy was formally slapped down and the divinity of Christ reaffirmed at Nicaea, and two centuries to go before the last word was spoken regarding the canon of the New Testament in the West!
The truth is that Catholicism is not the sycretistic faith. Yours is: it's a syncretism between the rationalism and nominalism of the 16th century and Catholic Christianity.
” Catholicism arose as a syncretism between Christianity and paganism, and generally developed into its present form between the 5th-7th centuries. “
In what odd psuedo history do you find that collection of lies?
HOW did I miss this.
Excellent testimony.