Which recourse to a straw man is typical, but i never said that 100% of His Church went disastrously astray for 1500-2000 years, as in fact that would be impossible in the light of what i said.
Not if the Church is the Body of Christ and we are His members.
Indeed, and as said, it is " the body of Christ which overcomes and continues, by God's grace and to His glory. Amen.
But that the leadership of the visible church can come to the point where there is almost an entire abandonment of equity in ecclesiastical judgments; of discipline in morals, of reverence in divine things, and thus true religion was almost extinct, leading multitudes astray, and that the true Church had to be sought outside the then-visible institution, which required reformation, cannot be denied.
Even if some RCs imagine otherwise, as they do that a perpetual assuredly infallible magisterium is essential for discernment and establishment of Truth, and of what is of God, and that common people cannot be correct in disagreeing with the historical stewards of Scripture. .
I just returned from the funeral of a dear student of mine, Sam, who died suddenly just one week short of his 50th birthday. I’m not going to be able to answer for much on FR today.