Likewise...
...whatever your chosen religious organization has invented in the not-so-recent 1500 years, this in no way sets the standard for GOD; as EVIDENCED by the Book that Rome assembled.
It is clear as in the wheat and tares example that you brought up that the various ideas that arose outside the Church in the past 500 years were tares, falling away and dying, while the wheat (the Church) was protected by God through the past 2000 years.