This is the collosal lie that lies at the root of Romanism. As has been pointed out on this thread quite a few times, there is no such thing as "Father" Peter, "Father" John, "Father" Paul, etc., in the NT. Same with Priests, Popes, Nuns. Case closed.
Papists extrapolate their Roman heirachial system, which arose centuries after the Apostles, into the original church.
Protestantism is the attempt to reach back to the paradigm of Chriatianity we see in the Bible alone, past the monstrous syncretist impostor, the Roman Papacy, the phoney posing as the genuine, posing as "the church that all other Christian religions come from."
The RCC is nothing but a cult, obvious when you compare the Bible against it, differing from other cults like Mormonism only in the amount of time its been around.
What were the Protestants protesting and when did they start?
You are the most arrogant and ignorant person I have encountered especially on the subject of Christianity....
You no nothing of what you speak, calling the Catholic Church “a cult”... Are you serious?
I suggest you study history and get your facts straight.
I always find it amusing how some in Protestant Faiths seem to go out of their way to knock and discredit everything about the Catholic Church in order to promote their own beliefs.
Since you are always quoting the Bible, why dont you look to the book of “Matthew” where Christ established Peter as the first Pope “Upon this rock you shall build my Church”, JUST WHAT CHURCH DO YOU THINK THIS WAS? It was certainly no Protestant Church since they did not exist!
They all spawned off off Catholicism and mostly because the individuals who started them decided they had a better understanding of Christianity than those of the Church Hierarchy.
There has been a POPE ever since Peter, but none before..please explain... You Cant!
There is a name of a “person” who started every Protestant Faith, but nobody can name a “person” who started the Catholic Church...please explain.... You Cant!
Because no “person” established the Catholic Church!
Study how the Lutheran Church came to be
Study how the Anglican Church came to be
Yep, all Catholic who did not want to be bound by Catholic teachings so they veered off to start a variation that fit thier needs...
Catholics do not preach intolerance for other religions and believe that if you follow your indicidual Christianity based religion to the best of your ability, you will get to heaven.
Some of the Protestant sects teach otherwise and dispense negative information about Catholicism to discredit it for its own gain.