Do Protestants think the Holy Spirit was wrong for over 1,500 yrs while guiding the Catholic Popes ?

Answer 1

Clearly, the Protestants didn't think the holy spirit was guiding the Pope, or that religion never would have split off from the Catholic church, right?

Answer 2

The Spirit doesn't guide the popes, it guides the Church. Popes are human. The doctrine of "infallibility" was promulgated in the late 19th Century under duress by a council called under false pretenses and irregularly concluded. And since then, only two papal statements have ever been declared "infallible" (both involving qualities of Mary and not affecting Christian behavior). The popes realize how dangerous this claim can be in light of evidence yet to come and they use it very seldom. Even so, it takes the Church a very long time to admit a "mistake".

Answer 3

Peter could never have been the first Pope as claimed as Rome never had Ecclessiastical supremacy over doctrine until the fall of the Roman Empire around 476AD.
The Holy Spirit certainly was not at work in the development of a system that tortured.incinerated,mutilated,murdered millions in europe/south america and the middle east in the crusades! All for the glory of God? Dont make me sick! and elsewhere for the last 1500 years.Historical facts judge that system for what it was and still is.Read up on the farce that was the Borgia Popes for a revealing insight into how the popes were chosen.

Answer 4

If the Holy Ghost was guiding the popes throughout the ages, they would have never been called the anti-christ time and time again. They didn't fulfill the gospel and kept it hidden from the common man instead of spreading it. When men started to translate the Bible into the common language, the translators were hunted down and tortured and burned at the stake because they went against the "church". The pope isn't Biblical, it's a man-made position and so contrary to scripture that it is so hard to believe that more people don't realize it.

Answer 5

I am sorry to say, but it was not the Holy Spirit of God who guided the popes these hundred of years. It was another spirit. These hundreds of years are described as the Dark Ages! For many centuries while the popes rule over the then known world, the Bible was prescribed and those who were caught reading it or teaching it often ended burned at the stake. It was the Reformation of the Sixteenth century that prepared the way for the Bible to be given to the common people in their own languages. It was not until after the French Revolution that the Bible began to be translated into many languages, the language that the people could understand.

What if I told you that the "papacy," in the Scriptures, is styled as "the man of sin" "the son of perdition" "the mystery of iniquity". The Reformers came to see the papacy as the antichrist! Instead of waiting for the antichrist to appear, he has been with us all these years making all nations drink the wine of her false doctrines such as the doctrine of eternal torments, the purgatory, the intercession of saints, the mass, auricular confession, indulgences, the worship of Mary, etc, etc.

Answer 6

500 AD?

I think that they might have been wrong to claim that the Holy Spirit had something to do with them. Not the Holy Spirit did anything wrong, but it wasn't the first time, neither would it be the last time, that someone claimed that God made something happen when it turned out to be a freak show at a circus.

The council did good to bring the various books of the Bible together.

Then, when those who dissented with them of things like:
going to Mass, HAVING A BIBLE, paid no homage to Mary, did not pray to 'saints', preached a doctrine not in accordance to the Roman Catholic Church, etc. The "church" decided to kill them. Was that the Holy Spirit as well?

What pope claimed the Holy Spirit when it came time to settle the argument by raping and looting the people who did not agree with the Roman Catholic church? Even children?

Where does one get the idea that the Roman Catholic Church has a corner on God? And why was the Bible outlawed by them (especially those in languages other than Latin) , and did many things to corrupt the teachings of Jesus Christ Himself?

I think it's possible that the Holy Spirit was involved in the creation of the Bible, but I do not see His good influence in the matters of Popes.

Answer 7

I suppose they assume the Bishop of Rome did not have the Gift of the Holy Ghost. How would you explain the great apostasy?

2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Answer 8

No. The Holy Spirit tries to guide all of us, sometimes we follow and sometimes we do not. I'm sure that the Holy Spirit has led the Popes as much as he has led me. But I have no doubt that the Popes have not been led by the Holy Spirit 100% of the time because we all are imperfect and God did not setup the Pope as the head of the church as Catholics have come to believe. And God does not inspire Popes any more than he inspires any of us Christians, nor does he inspire them any less. If you show me in scripture where it talks about establishing a Pope I will be happy to follow him, but there is nothing there.

Answer 9

The Holy Spirit indwells all believers. How do you know the Holy Spirit was the guiding force behind the popes? Because they said so? Kinda like papal infallibility, they claimed it so it became so. Was the Holy Spirit behind unbiblical teachings such as purgatory, indulgences, the mass, the insufficiency of Christ's sacrifice and the sacraments?

Answer 10

No, the bible tells us it is not the Holy Spirit at all that guides the papacy.