[ronald_reagan]

This should be interesting.

I think that the most common problem with people not accepting a the Catholic church, is typically because they don't understand the doctrines quite as good as they think. This was my biggest problem for years. I thought that I knew what they believed, and I thought I knew why it was wrong. Then after much time of thought, and study... I realized, I had been wrong all along about what they actually taught.

First question. Why do we as protestants believe that Peter wasn't the first 'pope'? And why do we not believe the Catholic church is the 'first' Church?