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The oldest is the non-denominational church in Acts. Find a local church that adheres to scripture rather than tradition. The Master’s Seminary has a church finder tool.
Haha that explains a lot. You’re just reading parts of what I say and making up your own narrative for the rest.
I hope you’ve learned it’s rude to denigrate others and belittle things you know nothing about.
The Catholic Church is the oldest :)
I’m sorry OP but you’re missing everything. The key question is: how does this tie to the Catholic Church?
This text you mentioned (and text elsewhere) does show Peter played a very key role in the early spread of the gospel however:
1) The rock Jesus said he would build his church on is the confession that he (Jesus) is the son of God, not on Peter.
2) If you read two chapters down in Mathew you’ll find that Jesus gave this same authority (the keys of the kingdom/spiritual authority to bind and loose) to believers in all churches
3) Most import since you’re claiming continuity from Jesus to Peter to the current pope: There is no historical continuity between Peter and the papacy. Only in the 4th century did Catholic bishops start to publish lists of succession that went back to Peter (as a head of bishops, not yet as a pope). There’s no basis historically to create that link. It only exists in Catholic tradition. This text does not prove the papacy.
4) In the early church recorded in Acts and in the New Testament letters, Peter does not have any more authority than the other leaders. He is in fact rebuked publicly by Paul for his weak faith and favoritism for Jews.
5) The church we have records of post-Jesus looks nothing like the institution of the Catholic Church. In fact the papacy itself (the idea of God having a singular representative on earth) can be considered un-biblical.
I won’t dwell long on this topic since there are lots of resources out there better than me and certainly better than my quick response. And very likely you won’t believe my position anyway. But, even if you keep your position, you should know that there is no established continuity except through tradition (the Catholic Church acknowledges this), and historians themselves debate over who the first pope was.
I did this in college and ended up Orthodox Christian. Feel free to DM me with any questions.
I think I am going home to the Traditional Latin Roman Rite Latin Mass.
Most people see the Latin Roman Rite churches and they are very liberal, progressive and diluted. The traditional Latin Mass is deep with reverence and respect toward God.
There are quite a few Catholic churches in the Northern Virginia area that celebrate the TLM. Some are primarily Novus Ordo parishes that have a TLM once a month, while others offer it frequently.
I agree that the reverence and piety are incredibly inspiring. There are also quite a few churches in the DC area that celebrate the Novus Ordo Mass with a great deal of reverence. Feel free to message me to discuss it all further if you’d like!
Honestly different sects were made bc some wanted to follow specific traditions and others wanted to not follow those traditions.
We all technically came from Judaism, but now we followed Christ and the example He led. The first church following Christ was in Acts itself, focused on meeting often, praying together, and sharing everything they had.