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Protestants: How does it feel to be 498 years old today?
The birth of your movement happens to be also the day of Halloween (Reformation Day it is also called). On the evening of October 31, 1517 Martin Luther posted his theses on the door of Wittenburg Church and began a process that would splinter into 20,000 different groups all claiming to have the correct interpretation of scripture. Thus began the Protestant Revolution. Quite a diabolical event in the history of Christianity.
www.catholicbible101.com/luthersrevolution.htm
Jesus lived about 2000 years ago so 498 years is not old enough to have authority directly from Jesus Christ or the apostles. Protestants did not exist at that time
7 Answers
- Anonymous6 years agoFavourite answer
A person can know with certainty the Catholic Church is the One True Church if he or she says the angelic psalter of Mary daily.
Protestantism is heresy.
- Anonymous5 years ago
You Catholics worship Mary, a mere human and vessel of God. You also repent of your sins in front of a priest rather than God Himself. And Pope Francis has said many anti-Biblical things such as that evolution is real and that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. And purgatory is never mentioned in the Bible. Man dies once and then the judgement. If everyone went to heaven eventually, we wouldn't need Jesus and His sacrifice on the Cross. We would just die, stay in hell and then go to heaven. Jesus is God. Jesus Christ ALONE is God. Not Mary, the Pope or a priest. And Peotestsnism wasn't founded 498 years ago. It was founded 2,000 years ago by the Son of God. God bless!
- EdwardLv 46 years ago
There's no truth in the idea that Luther's rejection of the Papacy was a departure from authentic Christianity. Luther was a true Catholic who wanted the visible Church to abandon the false teachings which had taken hold through the autocratic leadership of the popes. He rightly identified the Papacy as the Antichrist, and when he was unable to bring about reform due to the papists holding the reigns of power he was forced into schism. Here's how Luther explained his break from the pope in his Table Talk:
"The chief cause that I fell out with the pope was this: the pope boasted that he was the head of the church, and condemned all that would not be under his power and authority; for he said, although Christ be the Head of the church, yet, notwithstanding, there must be a corporal head of the church upon earth. With this I could have been content, had he but taught the Gospel pure and clear, and not introduced human inventions and lies in its stead. Further, he took upon him power, rule, and authority over the Christian church, and over the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God; no man must presume to expound the Scriptures, but only he, and according to his ridiculous conceits; so that he made himself lord over the church, proclaiming her at the same time a powerful mother, and empress over the Scriptures, to which we must yield and be obedient; this was not to be endured. They who, against God’s Word, boast of the church’s authority, are mere idiots. The pope attributes more power to the church, which is begotten and born, than to the Word, which has begotten, conceived, and borne the church. We, through God’s grace, are not heretics, but schismatics, causing, indeed, separation and division, wherein we are not to blame, but our adversaries, who gave occasion thereto, because they remain not by God’s Word alone, which we have, hear, and follow".
- ?Lv 76 years ago
So that means Jesus will return on the 500th anniversary of this event?! Cool! (He might show up a tad early; he seems to prefer September).