It is interesting and very telling that when in the book of Revelation Jesus Christ gives His all important and encompassing messages to the the seven churches, many in fault and some doing well, He says absolutely nothing about a central church that the Churches were suppose to be all importantly answering to. He says nothing about a Pope, His mother Mary being central to salvation or saying, as to the Catholics, the all important rosary, praying to saints, no nothing at all that alludes to their even being the organization of the Catholic Church or even anything remotely resembling it. He says nothing about the importance of adhereing to many central major doctrines of the CC today. There wasn’t an orginized Catholic Church or it could not have gone without mention as it would have been viewed as all important as the Catholics today think it is.
Excellent points.
The NT can be read in vain to find the RCC.
Why do I say this? Because I tried and failed, as your post describes so well.
Thanks again for your post.
Those were all Catholic Churches. There weren’t any other churches until Luther did his thing.