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....... Roman Catholic church isn’t “home” but a religion that has perverted the true gospel of the grace of God while asserting herself as THE church Jesus established.

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I don’t understand your anger. Did the Lord say to St. Peter that he holds the keys to the kingdom? On Holy Thursday, did the Lord not give his people the gift of the Eucharist and everlasting life?
It seems to me that the protestants left the Catholic church when Luther posted his thesis on a tree/door.
Now people make up any church they want. Anything goes or not.
The Orthodox Church. Look into them. They also believe in the Eucharist. (this I believe is why you are angry, your soul is thursting for the Bread of Life)

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

I don’t understand your anger. Did the Lord say to St. Peter that he holds the keys to the kingdom? On Holy Thursday, did the Lord not give his people the gift of the Eucharist and everlasting life? It seems to me that the protestants left the Catholic church when Luther posted his thesis on a tree/door. Now people make up any church they want. Anything goes or not. The Orthodox Church. Look into them. They also believe in the Eucharist. (this I believe is why you are angry, your soul is thursting for the Bread of Life)

Why do you see disagreement with Roman Catholicism as "anger"? I didn't leave the Christian faith, I didn't forsake Jesus Christ when I left Catholicism. Instead, when at 16 years old a kind Sunday School teacher from my grandparent's Baptist church showed me John 10:27-30 and I understood for the first time that salvation is the gift of God, that Jesus has given us eternal life and we shall never perish or be plucked from His hands, I knew I had not been told the truth before as a cradle Catholic. I reject the revisionist history of Christianity that Roman Catholicism has generated. Many of those points you are espousing right here:

Did the Lord say to St. Peter that he holds the keys to the kingdom? - yes, he did but those "keys" were the gospel and every Apostle as well as every believer since is commissioned to preach that gospel to everyone so they may come to faith in Christ. The "gates of hell" cannot prevail, they cannot hold in those souls that receive the truth.
On Holy Thursday, did the Lord not give his people the gift of the Eucharist and everlasting life? - I won't quibble with you on the day but Jesus taught a few years before then that He is the Bread of Life and the Water of Life, and all those who believe in Him, who receive Him are eating and drinking His life and holiness into them. On the night before He was crucified, He reminded them that His body was going to be broken for them, that His blood was going to be shed for them and the sins of the world. He said as often as we do this, we do it in remembrance of Him. But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God. (John 1:12,13) Jesus said that those who eat His flesh and drink His blood will never hunger or thirst. Do you still get hungry or thirsty? Did he perhaps mean something more figuratively than literally here? Besides, I DO participate in the remembrance/observance of the Lord's Supper in fellowship with other believers. Do you think that ONLY Catholics can do that?
It seems to me that the protestants left the Catholic church when Luther posted his thesis on a tree/door. Now people make up any church they want. Anything goes or not. - Luther had good reasons for his objections to what the Catholic church had become and their abuses of Indulgences. But he was not the first nor the only Catholic who tried to reform the church from within. There are numerous books and articles on the causes of the Reformation. I can recommend many to you should you decide to learn more about the reasons. As for "anything goes", there are all kinds of churches out there but the central tenets of the Christian faith have not changed. Some hold to them still while others have fallen away just as we were warned would happen. I'm sure you're not presuming that the Catholic church doesn't have its share of heretics and apostates. Many people here even assert the Pope isn't Catholic anymore yet he is the titular leader of your religion!
The Orthodox Church. Look into them. They also believe in the Eucharist. (this I believe is why you are angry, your soul is thursting for the Bread of Life) - you know the Orthodox church disagrees with many things the Roman Catholic church teaches, right? They split almost a thousand years ago and that doesn't bother you? They don't teach exactly the same things about the Eucharist.

Again, I am not angry nor do I thirst for the Bread of Life because I still have it. I didn't leave the Christian faith but became a real one and much stronger one. My faith and love for God has grown for over fifty years now and I yearn for the day I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.

Hope that answers your questions. God bless you.

Now people make up any church they want. Anything goes or not.

Correct - they believe in a 19th century invention called the pre-tribulation rapture. This movement led to millerites (Seventh day adventists, Jehovah's witnesses), Jehovah's witnesses as well as the slew of pre-tribulation rapturists