2007-09-19 09:21:53 · 10 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
CJ I do belive that but I was just wondering who were Protestant before the Reformation.
2007-09-19 09:27:21 · update #1
There weren't Protestants until the Reformation in the 15 century.
2007-09-19 09:27:07 · answer #1 · answered by atheist 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
protestants did not emerge until after Martin Luther's protests in the early 1500s.
in the 3rd century, you had the early Catholics, and miscellaneous other Christian sects (such as the Gnostics) that would later be wiped out by their fellow Christians.
2007-09-19 16:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Protestant churches started after Martin Luther took a stand for the Word of God over the hierachy of the Catholic church around 1500 AD. It is know as the reformation.
Either way is doesn't matter. Christ is my leader and most of all He is my Savior. My promise of salvation from sin, death and the devil is in Jesus Christ. By His grace I (a wreched sinner) have be saved.
2007-09-19 16:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Pro-American 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No Protestants in the third century. But you already knew that.
2007-09-19 16:28:54 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Carl, there have always been schisms in the church going right back to the infant church,
The church we call Catholic is the same church come down to us from Peter and the Apostles through the ages, but just as satan and the hoardes of Hell have constantly attacked the church of Christ through the ages and caused many schisms they will not suceed in destroying this one true church.
There have been many who have broke away from the church to form their own and so any of these early schismatics can be said to be the fore-runner of Protestantism.
2007-09-19 16:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, none existed yet. Research Martin Luther and John Calvin, quite a bit later.
2007-09-19 16:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Serpico7 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lol........you are kidding?
In the 1st century, St. Ignatius, Peter's appointee to the Antiochian bishopric, addressed his letter to the Roman Church like this:
...to the Church which has obtained mercy, through the majesty of the Most High Father, and Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son; the Church which is beloved and enlightened by the will of Him that willeth all things which are according to the love of Jesus Christ our God, which also presides in the place of the report of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honour, worthy of the highest happiness, worthy of praise, worthy of obtaining her every desire, worthy of being deemed holy, and which presides over love, is named from Christ, and from the Father, which I also salute in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father: to those who are united, both according to the flesh and spirit, to every one of His commandments; who are filled inseparably with the grace of God, and are purified from every strange taint, I wish abundance of happiness unblameably, in Jesus Christ our God.
Read the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, Cyril of Jerusalem, Irenaeus, Polycarp, St. Augustine, etc... They are rich with Catholic doctrine -- and the earliest evidence we have for what the Church was like in its earliest days!
2007-09-22 03:23:30 · answer #7 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Protestants did not exist in the 3rd century, A.D. or B.C.
Neither did Catholics.
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2007-09-19 16:28:05 · answer #8 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They were all Catholics in the beginning.
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2007-09-19 16:25:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Forget "protestants" and "catholics". There is saved and unsaved, and that's it, and that's what it's always been since day one.
If you believe that Jesus, who is God, died for your sins on the cross and rose again, you are saved. If you reject that to your dying breath, you will go to hell for eternity.
And by that, catholics are not saved Christians.
2007-09-19 16:25:19 · answer #10 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 9⤋