Why Did The Reformation Actually Happen?

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Most of us have probably heard the story of how a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a church. These theses were essentially ninety-five complaints lodged against the Catholic Church. In those days, the Catholic Church was the big guy on the block when it came to religion. Those who dared question Catholic doctrine were inevitably said to be in error, and if they did not immediately correct their “errors,” they would be labeled heretics. And it wasn’t that good to be a heretic in those days since it usually meant a one-way ticket to getting burned at the stake.

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[markgamble]

A dollar for your sin…
Ten dollars for the win…
Hundred dollars to kill…
Thousand dollars for the thrill…
Million dollars for the pill…
(Rapping the Catholic feel)

[rev.stephena.cakouros]

This was good, but you left out Augustine the greatest man between Paul and the sixteenth century, whose ideas influenced the Council of Orange in 529, but were shelved in favor of what should be called Semi-Pelagianism; the belief that the will is only partially impaired. Still and all the ideas preached by Augustine came back to life in the 16th century. "The Protestant Reformation is Augustine's doctrine of sin in rebellion against his doctrine of the Church." [Benjamin Warfield] Augustine, when the church was sound doctrinally, said there was no salvation outside of it. Sound doctrinally meant that salvation was all of grace because inherited sin and its impairment of the will had to mean only mean that salvation could never be earned, which is what Roman Catholics were teaching, then and even now.

The Reformation was a return to Justification by faith, and the doctrine of the free grace of God, free because it could not be earned even if you wanted to earn it, [Hab.2:4, Romans 1:17, Gal 3:11, Phil. 3:9, Hebrews 10:38]. So why did the Roman Church resist this teaching of Justification by faith, which was the finding of the Jerusalem Council, Acts 15:7-11; and a teaching that runs from Genesis to Revelation?

Answer: The Catholic Church inserts itself between Christ and the sinner; and Justification by faith prevents it from doing so. No one needs the Catholic Church to be saved. Salvation is all of Christ.

The influence of Augustine, and his doctrine of grace and justification by faith, was felt by Wycliffe the Morning Star of the Reformation, who in turn influenced Huss. Luther also felt the impact of Augustine as did John Calvin whose Institutes of the Christian Religion comprise the single greatest summation of Biblical Christianity.

Now lets not forget the Italian Waldensians of Northern Italy who had the "Protestant Reformation in their loins 300 years before Luther." [James Wylie] " "The Waldensians were the Biblical sect of the Middle Ages." [Philip Schaff]

Bravo Italia!

[minimike]

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[andrewcarter]

Jesus would have went to Rome and fixed things from within to protect the herd. Luther was inspired by the devil to achieve division and damage to the Jesus's church

[aubreygmcghee]

Indulgences were not redemption from past sins but rather the removal of the temporal consequences of sins.

The Catholic Church teaches that forgiveness of sin is by Grace and not through works.

Temporal consequences are the temporal effects of sin or damages caused by sin.

[Ericviking]

This is terrible, inaccurate, lazy,