Still doesn’t answer the question...
How do you cross that 1500 year gap?
“The question I have for you - is if you sincerely believe that the children of God would not be left leaderless, how do you cross that 15 hundred year gap between Christ and Luther? I’m curious.”
Surely you aren’t suggesting there were no Christians outside of the Roman church before Luther’s biblical separation. I assure you from the time of Christ to Luther there were millions. If you aren’t aware of them perhaps it’s because the popes drenched the soil of Europe with so much of their blood. So it’s not surprising Rome has worked to extinguish their memory, particularly from those trapped in her apostasy. To this day Rome efforts to hide her sins, both of today and yesterday. We need look no further than the molestation scandal for proof that Rome still hides her many sins.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”
That word admiration connotes astonishment.