Both history and the Church in the New Testament seems to give some problems.
It’s hard to “see” the invisible-only church of each individual deciding his/her own scripture, interpretation, doctrine and teaching in either place. The church of the individual is barely a couple hundred years old, if that.
Again, building on my own post #678, the Catholic church was the “visible” church, as opposed to the Gnostic church, the “occultic” church.