On the contrary, the Catholic Church is the only one on Earth that was not man-made but instituted by our Lord Himself. On the other hand, every protestant denomination ever created is a fake, man-made imitation thereof.
What exactly is this new covenant we live under. Remember, God destroyed the curtains separating us from him. He destroyed the temple. He destroyed the old priestly system. He destroyed the old sacrificial system.
He prophecies this in Jeremiah and repeated in Hebrews.
Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant ...............….
Jer 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Jer 31:34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
The new covenant is a direct relationship with us through the Holy Spirit.
The RC rebuilt the old system that God destroyed. Some P do this also.
With all respect and Christian brotherhood, based on what you each wrote, it appears to me that you two folks are about as close as one gets to the logical conclusion of the Protestant movement.
Luther originally broke from the hierarchical Church founded by our Lord on the “rock” of St Peter and the Apostles, the original bishops.
Luther himself created an imitation of the Catholic Church with some doctrinal changes (he even removed several books from the Bible). Following his lead others would soon emerge to create their own denominations with further changes to better suit their own preferences.
Today there are thousands of varieties of protestant churches (you can’t drive a single block in some areas of Brooklyn or the Bronx without seeing multiple storefront churches, such as “the Reformed Universal Church of God Assembly” with a self-named ‘pastor’s’ name stenciled on the window.
The penultimate step in the regression is the “Bible Christian” who forswears all organized religion that gets between them and their Bible. Ultimately though, even they will have to come to terms with the fact that the Bible was compiled by the same Catholic Church founded by Jesus in the first place. At that point they will have a choice to make: come home to the One True Church or abandon the Bible for agnosticism or some vague, ill-defined spiritualism.
This is the Protestant conundrum.