You have "shown" exactly nothing. Thus, your anti-Catholic claims amount to exactly the same.
..."common sense" that you are apparently completely unable to actually articulate on this forum. See above.
Merely an Ad Hominem Fallacy on your part, thus publically demonstrating your utter lack of any valid anti-Catholic argument whatsoever. Thank you for proving my point.
So much for your bumbling and inept claim that "the CC is not the Church Jesus started," and that "it came along 300+ years later." :darwinsm:
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
+T+
Ive shown that:
1. Peter was never in Rome and Babylon is not a code word for Rome. Peter's mission was to the circumcision, he never would have entertained visiting Rome, let alone, he did not possess a transporter. His missionary journeys are well known also, and a visit to Rome was impossible. So your church was NOT FOUNDED by Peter.
2. There was no central church in Rome till the Roman Empire made Christianity legal. ALL of the Christians in Rome prior to the 3rd century AD were slaves and servants, whom each had their own portions of the city, with their own grave yards and clandestine catecombs and meeting places. The politics of the time would have precluded a 'pope' or centralized church, since it would have been a target for persecution and would have been erased faster than they could have refilled the positions.
3. Scholars have proven the scholar hired by Rome (Eucebius.. sp?) to fabricate a history of the church... did just that, and even admitted that he suppressed anything that might call the legitimacy of Rome into account.
4. Rome, technically, is just another Protestant sect, since it was a minority that broke away from a majority in 1054 when it coveted power for itself and excommunicated its brothers... if anything, the Eastern Orthodox Churches,from a historical perspective, are WAY more legit than Rome.
5. The traditions Rome has ADDED to the faith are of Pagan origin.. I have proven this when it comes to sacraments, priests and nuns, calling Mary the queen of heaven and saying she is a perpetual virgin.. they were all per-christian Roman traditions reworked to appeal to the masses.
And I could go on.
You belong to and are supporting a FRAUD.... religion's equivalent of the blood thirsty Italian Mafia (whom the RCC has been in bed with multiple times throughout history... fyi). It's interesting that the perpetually cursed City of Rome was a breeding ground for the RCC and the Mafia... they are two sides of the same coin.