Perhaps you might entertain the notion that man-made religions will all go down the same path eventually. There is one path that one might follow - that of Jesus.
The truth is any church can fall into apostasy, just like Israel did over and over again in the OT. In spite of organizational apostasy, there may or may not be a remnant of the elect that exixt not because of the state of affairs in said organization, but because God wills it so.
Rome became officially apostate in 1545 when it declared
If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.
Many previously sound denominations have similarly slipped into apostasy over the last couple of hundred years.
My own denomination flirted briefly with the absolutely Romanesque New Perspectives On Paul. Thank God it was shouted down. Had it not I would have been forced to find a new home in which worship.
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Rome became officially apostate in 1545 when it declaredReally? Odd, others on this thread swear it was 331. Or was that 313? Any how, prior to 1545 was the Roman Mass heretical? The other six Sacraments (Baptism, marraige, confession, confirmation, annoiting of the sick and Holy Orders), were they heretical?If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.