Who are you to judge so? I'm asking about credentials, because otherwise this is an implied appeal to your own authority.
OK, fine. Then where today is this ekklesia that He said against which the gates of Hades will not prevail?
I think it means what the Church thought it meant from the outset.
The "authority" that shows that the RCC is NOT the church that Jesus started is
history itself. Jesus clearly stated that you would recognize the false Christians by their "fruits" (works/deeds). (Matthew 7:16) What has the so-called true church of Jesus Christ revealed about itself through its deeds? Was Jesus leading the Crusades (where thousands of people were destroyed, including innocent women and children and even
other Christians)? Was Jesus involved in the Inquisition (that caused the torture and deaths of thousands of helpless people)? Did Jesus really guide Pope Pius XII to sign a concordat with the Nazis, agreeing to work
with them & not against them? And did the pope speak out against the atrocities that the Nazis were perpetrating on the people? Did he even speak out to protect one of his own nuns who was a converted Jew (but who died at the hands of the Nazis)? Did Jesus guide the church to hide known Nazis in the churches and then help them escape to other countries? Did Jesus instruct the church to join in with the Orthodox murderers in the 1990s to annihilate Muslims in the Balkans, throwing them into wells and hacking them to death...women and children included, and then allowing full reign to Ante Pavlic who ate Muslim eyeballs as a snack? And in these days...does Jesus find it totally OK for his church to transfer child molesters to other parishes rather than putting them out of the church? Has he instructed (as the Vatican has done) his bishops to ignore rules stating that molesters should be reported to the police, and to continue to handle things "in-house," continuing to merely transfer the pedophiles? I could go on. Answer my question, if you can.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is WIDE and the road BROAD that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are MANY." (Matt.7:13, NAB) The majority is not always right. Just because the organization is big doesn't mean it represents the truth.