Why did the reformation occur?
Questions or Comments?
Why did the reformation occur?
- Martin Luther, a Catholic priest, was concerned about some of the behavioral abuses in the Church, especially among some bishops and priests, and desired to see certain practical and moral reforms enacted in the Church.
- To that end, and to prompt academic debate, Luther posted his "95 Theses" on the door of the parish church in Wittenberg.
- If Luther had stopped there---attempting to reform various problematic moral behaviors and illegitimate practices of the clergy---all would have been fine. It was when he presumed to try and "reform" the formal doctrines of Christ's one historic Church that Luther ran into trouble with the hierarchy, and rightly so.
- Genuine reform---and there were plenty of other reformers in the Church besides Luther---is directed to the moral behavior and false practices of Church leadership, NOT to the Church's established divine teachings.
- Luther and his fellow "Protestants" attempted to replace the authoritative doctrines of Christ's one historic Church with their own personal interpretations and theological opinions and, in so doing, ultimately gave birth to the Protestant "reformation"---a movement which has produced some 50,000+ man-made non-Catholic denominations and sects to date, with more being invented every week, all directly contrary to the expressed will of Jesus Christ (Jn. 17:11, 20-23; cf. 1 Cor.1:10; Phil. 2:1-2; Eph. 4:3-6; Rom. 16:17).
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
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The opinions (traditions of men) taught to you by your chosen recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect are noted.Because men like Luther thought that something that never had possessed life to begin with, and still does not - the RCC - needed to be reformed.
Comment: utilizing that logic we should still have slavery within the borders of our compact.
Questions or Comments?
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Yeah, let's all join with Rome where we can get officially approved stuff like this.
http://christiannews.net/2016/01/09...ligions-those-who-meet-god-in-different-ways/
Or this.
http://christiannews.net/2016/01/11...s-healing-idol-being-marched-through-streets/
The Pope said it so it must be so.
No. It isn't.Is this a true representation of the why? https://apologeticsetc.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/why-did-the-protestant-reformation-happen/
The flaw in your thinking here is that the issue of slavery is a cultural and civil issue, not a formal theological doctrine.Comment: utilizing that logic we should still have slavery within the borders of our compact.
Yeah, let's all join with Rome where we can get officially approved stuff like this.
http://christiannews.net/2016/01/09...ligions-those-who-meet-god-in-different-ways/ Or this http://christiannews.net/2016/01/11...s-healing-idol-being-marched-through-streets/