A story for every day...
The false prince.
A prince died leaving a considerable fortune. An only son was to inherit. After many years a young man came forward claiming to be the prince’s son. But his birth certificate proved that he was born only several years after the death of his supposed father, and naturally he did not receive the inheritance.
The same is true of the various Christian churches that have been formed over the centuries. These churches claim to have their origin in Jesus Christ, but the date of their birth gives them a formal denial. How can Jesus Christ have founded a Church that was only established in the sixteenth century? For no one can deny that the Protestant Church did not exist before 1518. The same is true of the Anglican Church, which was founded by Henry VIII, King of England, in 1535. The schismatic Church of 1870 is not the true Church, even though it is called “Old Catholicism”, because it is only the result of the defection of some Catholic priests and did not exist before the First Vatican Council.
The destroyed water pipe.
If someone wanted to make us believe that a water pipe with more than 2000 pipes could be destroyed by an earthquake, so that the pipes were broken from the 300th and that nevertheless the water started to flow again and to feed the pipe from the 1518th pipe as if nothing had happened, what would we say? However, what the protestants claim is no less ridiculous, since they tell us that the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ was lost in the third century and that Luther discovered it again. The true doctrine of Jesus Christ could not be lost, because the Savior promised it would last forever.
The true Church must go back to the times of the apostles, for Jesus Christ foretold that the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church, which is firmly established on the rock of Saint Peter. If the true Church had disappeared over the centuries, Jesus Christ would not have kept His promise, which is impossible.
