I understand using the words PROTESTANT and CATHOLIC for discussion purposes today, but who imagines either invented the Gospel? It comes from God and is not for sale!
Both schools have ersatz definitions for the truths any idiot could understand from reading (or hearing) Scripture. Wisdom calls out the “simple ones” to come into her house. Smarts is irrelevant. But to build their own kingdoms and maintain them with a vengeance—lest anyone “take their place”— they demand we come to THEM to get our thimble of grace.
“Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.”—Galatians 2:4-5
God didn’t choose the “fathers” or the “popes” or the denominations, etc., to establish the Gospel. He chose his holy PROPHETS and APOSTLES. Listen to HIM throughTHEM first and wonder at all the nonsense that followed!
**but who imagines either invented the Gospel?**
The FRoman Catholics.
Maybe not; but there is one group on FR that thinks that THEY and ONLY THEY are the ONLY 'authorized' distributors!