No way...the only "church" that matters to the NT is the one Jesus built - the Jews hate Jesus and call Him "son of a whore" and "the Great Imposter".
Cain was punished for killing Abel, Abraham knew not to lie, Rachel knew not to steal, Joseph knew not to covet, etc., all of which lived long before the first Jew. It's silly to think the Ten Commandments were only for the Jews, ESPECIALLY since the New Testament repeats every single commandment for Christians to keep.
The church of the 1st century was ONE - with just a few problems. It gets the HIGHEST marks of all 7 churches in Revelation's prophecy of the 7 churches.
Did you read what I said? The first century church founded by Jesus taught Christians to keep the Ten Commandments, as Scripture clearly shows. The Catholic church BREAKS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and teaches their faithful to do the same, therefore it cannot trace its roots back to Jesus.
There's only one problem with that - no Scripture to support it. BTW, "holy" and "reverend" are HIS NAMES, not the names of misguided men who think they are gods.
Yes, and when men see the commandments Catholicism teaches are different from the commandments the church Jesus founded teaches in Scripture, they automatically know that Catholicism can't be traced to Jesus.
If all would base their beliefs on the whole of Scripture, and not just certain parts of it, we'd be all one in the Body of Christ.