OTOH, Catholics claim the Catholic church existed from the time Jesus told Peter He would build the church on him.
So the Catholics claim that everything was Catholic from the get go. That all Christians were Cathlocis and all Catholics were Christians. They claim that the Catholic church wrote the Bible because all the *church fathers* were, by default, Catholic.
So what I was referencing was THEIR argument that the Catholic church existed and believed certain things for 1,500 years.
I myself don’t buy it. I agree with you.
Sheesh, I must have been tired or something. I just noticed that I posted this to the wrong post. It was meant for you.
See post 1596