[GoLightly]

Having been a Protestant most of my life, I can answer this. Protestants see Catholic and Orthodox leaders as among the wolves who preached a "different gospel", and led the early Christians away from the simplicity of the gospel recovered by the Reformers.

If one must trust the authority of one's own church leadership & that the Holy Spirit only protected them (everything that they teach as dogma), the possibility that the wolves had corrupted your church would be blasphemous.

Anyone seeing the church as having lost it's way & riddled with corrupt wolves must deny one's own lying eyes. Going back to the beginning, to see what the basic foundation looked like is fruitless to anyone who thinks there have been no changes since then that haven't come from the Holy Spirit.

[kawaii]

If one must trust the authority of one's own church leadership & that the Holy Spirit only protected them (everything that they teach as dogma), the possibility that the wolves had corrupted your church would be blasphemous.

If one aledges there is not one unbroken church since 33 AD then one is aledging that God gave up and never sent the Holy Spirit. Further rather than save his church he caused division.

1Cr 14:33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

1Cr 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

1Cr 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

[kawaii]

Anyone seeing the church as having lost it's way & riddled with corrupt wolves must deny one's own lying eyes. Going back to the beginning, to see what the basic foundation looked like is fruitless to anyone who thinks there have been no changes since then that haven't come from the Holy Spirit.

One might want to ponder archaeological evidence before one assumes they've been changes.