An Inconvenient Truth.

Recently while listening to a Protestant Radio Show Host and Catholic Apologist debate about the Eucharist the subject of the Early Church Fathers was brought up. The ECF's continually preach about a real presence of Christ's blood and body in the Eucharist, however, the Protestant's answer to the ECF's was that these men aren't authoritative and that even the Galatians followed after a different gospel even after Paul warned them not to.

So that's it I guess? How do you answer the 2nd generations of Christian bishops and pastors holding to a very sacramental life within the Church? You just claim that the leaders of the church were all following a different gospel within 60-70 years after Christ placed the future of the Church in the Apostle's hands.

I've heard the idea that the Church became flawed when their were more Greeks in the Church then Jews(after the fall of Jerusalem), and they brought their paganistic practices with them. Somehow it took 1500-1800 years for the Church to be rescued depending on who you ask. However, the idea that you dismiss the writings of the men who were handed the reigns of the church by the apostles because these men held to a different gospel seems a real easy and lax answer to solve an inconvenient truth.