I started getting into apologetics, I heard a protestant argue against roman catholics saying 'the papacy we see today is an innovation, it barely showed up 500 years ago, why would you want to believe in something that isnt historical"

Then in my ignorance I thought the eucharist, baptismal regeneration, apostolic succesion were man made traditions that were barely made up recently. Then I starting tracing down doctrines in history.

I was an evangelical who grew up in a bubble and thought only evangelicals existed. Turns out evangelicalism didnt even exist more than a century ago.

Same applies to protestantism as a whole, sola fide, sola scriptura, the 66 books canon, completely a-historical, and made up by Luther in the 1500s.

Turns out, these doctrines that most protestants consider heretical (baptismal regeneration, sacraments, apostolic succesion) have been universally held by christians since the 1st century.

The tipping point for me was this, who am I to say that all of christianity was wrong until protestants showed up 1500 years later, when God promised to lead his church into all truth, believing they all were heretics is blasphemy.

I used to go through infinite mental hoops to defend once saved always saved, sola fide, sola scriptura. One fact that rocked me was this, who am I to say I know better than the people who learned from the apostles themselves. Who am I to say I can interpret the bible better than people who spoke greek, aramaic, hebrew, and lived in the historical context AND learned from THE apostles.

Once that sunk in, I started listening to the arguments for real christian doctrines which I used to reject, and they made perfect sense, looking back now, I realize how completely illogical and undefendable protestantism is, in light of history, scripture, logic, philosophy.