This is a serious question. Why do we get overrun with protestants in an obviously Catholic thread? I have yet to even look at a protestant/evangelical thread.
It gets old.
So, back to the question, why is something 200AD too late to matter when protestantism started 12-1300 years later?
When it’s not a Catholic caucus thread, non-Catholics are allowed to post.
This is not a "Catholic Thread".
It is an Open Religion Forum Thread. The OP wanted it open for discussion, one must assume.
When we see the false teachings of the Roman Catholic Church some of us feel compelled to post the correct the errors.
For the same reason the NT church could begin long after God chose a nation to be His instrument and steward of Divine revelation. And which church began with itinerant preachers who were rejected by the historical magisterium, sitting in the seat of Moses, but which preaches and church established their Truths claims upon Scriptural substantiation in word and in power, versus the novel and unScriptural premise of ensured perpetual magisterial infallibility as per Rome.
Because your leadership FAILED to completely EXTERMINATE them back in the day when they had ABSOLUTE power over peoples lives.