Catholics,what did you think was the cause of the Protestant and other sect of Christianity to be born?

Answer 1

Martin Luther didn't like the sale of indulgences, because he wasn't getting a cut of the proceeds.

Answer 2

A) Depends on the denomination.

B) Lutheranism began because Martin Luther disagreed with some excesses of the Church and got really vocal about it. That wouldn't have done it except he then went on to dump just about everything and construct a new church along his own bright ideas. Since "As the Prince goes, so go the people" was the prevailing politics of the German principalities at the time, they used this split as a nifty excuse to make unauthorized land grabs. After a generation or two, nobody knew which from what any more and they stuck pretty much with whatever Mom and Dad followed, never realizing that Mom and Dad probably had a choice to follow their Prince or get dead in a hurry.

C) Anglicans/Episcopalians got their start because Henry VIII was bound and determined to have a male heir and the strictures of the Catholic Church about divorce were NOT gonna gainsay Henry's will. Nosirree sir, not by a long shot.

D) Over the next 3 centuries, these major splits kept on splitting as their inadequacies were perceived by various members whose response was to go off and start still another church. We got the Baptists, the Methodists, the various Assemblies of God, the Society of Friends, the Mormons, the Presbyterians, etc. all by this route.

Answer 3

Henry the XIII was the begging. He desire to "Divorce" made a huge separation. Then from him stemmed "Nationalism" creating corruption of mingling church and state (1300’s these were separate).

The Catholic Church had begun to reform through the grace of God. Catholic reform emphasized the "three D's", devotion (new fervor in worship), discipline (reform of abuses and purified Catholic life), and doctrine (clarification of Catholic beliefs). Historian Thomas Bokenkotter comments on the results of this reform:

"By the end of the Council of Trent 1563, Protestantism has already established it's sway over half of Europe. This trend was reversed, however, during the remainder of the century. With the publication of Trent's decrees and the upsurge of new vitality in the Catholic Church - manifested especially in the Jesuits and the regenerated papacy - The Catholic Church began to recover large blocks of territory. Poland turned back to Catholicism; large parts of Germany, France, and the southern Netherlands were likewise restored to communion with the Holy See, while Protestantism made no significant gains after 1563. And overseas Catholic mission gains compensated for the losses suffered in Europe"

While the gospel was being spread to the ends of the earth by Catholic missionaries in the first half of the seventeenth century, Europe was engaged in bitter wars of religion. Between Catholic and Protestant nations. The last of these religious wars took place in Germany. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was brought to end by the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which granted Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvanists equality before the law in Germany. In reality, each nation or region within a nation had its own particular Christen "church," and those people of another Christian faith within that territory often were persecuted either directly or indirectly. Even though there were truces from direct conflict, Christian Europe was divided into warring camps in which religion was a key factor. This sad situation helped give rise to a search for "reasonable religion" in the next period of Christianity.

Nonethe less, within each segment of the divided Church, there were many places where the good news of Jesus Christ burned brightly. The Catholic Church certainly looked forward with hope to the strengthening of the Catholic life in Europe and to the further spread of the Catholic faith in Christ throughout the world. The Catholic Church has met its greatest challenge to date and has survived with renewed vigor.

Answer 4

Human error. Each time a branch was made, it was because a human had a problem with something. This is the same for any religion that has various branches. Even Judaism has more then one branch, which was started with some human protested the rules and decided to do things their way.

Answer 5

Egos. Just like everything else in this world. Ego destroy things. People wanted to tailor Christianity to their lifestyle. But it doesn't work that way.

That's why there are so many little Churches, especially in the New England area. When certain members of the church didn't like what they heard they packed up and moved down the road and set up another church. And the cycle continued.

Answer 6

Don't have to be Catholic.
Don't have to think.
Historical fact is often sufficient.
Catholicism was EXTREMELY corrupt. Protestantism started initially in response to the deplorable abuse of poor people known as the selling of indulgences.
It also didn't hurt that Rome (the government, not the church) exacted very high taxes from kings. This made local kings very sympathetic to Protestant leaders who wanted to rebel against Rome the Church.

Answer 7

The Roman Catholics were not the first and they have never been the only. There have always been True Christians who did not bow to the man invented roman cult.

Answer 8

I think Christianity should have more sects.



(say it out loud, then maybe you'll get it!)

Answer 9

The pressure and laws of the Catholic hierarchy ... You don't need a priest to talk to God... Talk to Him yourself.