Do Protestants believe all of Christianity was wrong until the Protestant sect was "reborn" after 1500 yrs ?

Answer 1

I don't think most of them know that there was a Christian church before 500 years ago. Many that I have talked to do not care that the church Christ started is still around today and it is pre-denominational. (obviously)

The Romans were part of the church but, they chose to leave it so they could develop their own doctrines, trouble free. The Protestant and reformation movement rebelled against the Roman sect 450 years later because of the new doctrines the Roman sect had created.

Instead of returning to the church Christ started, the protestants responded by creating their own doctrines and started their own sect, twice removed from the original. The reformation movement followed close behind them by doing the exact same thing.

Answer 2

Of course not. I believe that the Catholic church started out as being almost entirely correct, if not completely correct, and it was corrupted over the years by men for political purposes. The end results of this were the Crusades, the Inquisition, various witch burnings across Europe, the times when the church sold "indulgences", and finally the Reformation.
It's pretty obvious looking back over history that the church itself became a political, rather than a religious, movement. However, those who had no part in any of what I mentioned, and just wanted to follow Jesus, were true Christians.
And I still disagree with some of the things the Catholic church does, and some of their rituals and such. Which is why I'm Protestant. But I still believe Catholics are Christians.

Answer 3

No, no, no, no. That's not it. Not it at all.

There was this guy named Jesus, who was said to be from Nazareth. And He said don't pray in repetition as the heathen do, and worship God only through prayer, fasting, giving, loving, etc.

And then Jesus died and was resurrected; and He called it.

Then He ascended, and sent down the Holy Spirit.

And the church really started with that as we know it.

And Paul the Apostle was a major player in all this. He got a special 'convincing' that Jesus is God, and that he should be a Christian.

And the other Apostles for the most part agreed. (None of them were Popes).

Persecutions happened before these things, and after. As the persecutions continued there sprang heresies, which the Apostles dealt with to the end of their days.

Once the Apostles were gone, the heresies continued. And there was this really big meeting where an Emperor wanted everything figured out and gathered. They did this while dealing with any issue that came up. Alas, the Bible was born!

(There were still not any Popes.)

Finally, when the Roman Emperor got tired of the name 'Pope' the Church that was unfortunately placed as "the State Church" which was otherwise called, " The Roman Catholic Church" began to think of itself as Law of the Land.

And as history shows, they began to have problems with worshiping God on their own impulse, and so began to refine the art of torture and persecution, even taking a few people who had nothing to do with any of it, they just had some choice spots of land and money, things that the "State Church" wanted for . . . . . . er . . . .spreading the word. You know, the Good News. The Gospel. The one that included having people's dead relatives staying in Purgatory if the living relatives didn't give them money.

And so the Roman Catholic Church spread the "Good News" to the furthest reaches of the Earth, getting people to listen to the priests, friars, and monks tell them about being the "First Christian Church of Eating God, Praying to Mary, And paying money to get relatives out of Purgatory, you know: The "Good News".

Answer 4

No Protestant Christan's were just Catholic Christians before the Protestant Church was born.
BB

Answer 5

The OP's name is *almost* blasphemy =P

If you look at the history, and what protestants were... protesting at the time, you'll see they were rejecting many aspects of the church which had been established by men, not God. Christianity was never monolithic (though it was dominated through much of its middle history by catholicism) so it's possible to reject the established church without rejecting all of Christianity.

Answer 6

You are giving them too much credit
Look at bush a model Protestant
Do you think they know any thing about some thing?
Protestants know only what their preacher tells them and it’s not very much
They don’t can’t even think their was a world before America was born, other then biblical times.

Answer 7

i can only speak for myself...after seeing what the rcc had become (the crusades, the inquisition, hoarding of wealth while the common people starved (Christ said 'if you love Me, feed My sheep', not 'build huge cathedrals and fill them with statues and artwork'), the selling of indulgences, involvement in political intrigues throughout europe, and various sex and financial scandals, some involving the highest levels of the rcc hierarchy, the adherence to dogma not found in scripture (infant baptism, purgatory, praying to mary and 'saints'), wholesale forced conversion of native americans...is it any wonder that a 'reformation' or 'schism' happened?
as soon as ANY denomination starts paying more attention to itself and less to Christ, there's bound to be trouble...
as for 'protestant'...most of us don't see our relationship with Christ as a product of the church we attend...we think of ourselves as Christians first-He was here before ANY denomination was founded, and He will be here long after they are all just a fleeting memory

Answer 8

No, they think there were "dissenters" all along who didn't come out of the closet til Martin Luther ( the drunken anti-Semite) paved the way with his excommunication.

Answer 9

Not a christian---but I think they think they Luther was probably just taking them back to that "old time religion" that was meant to be in the bible days.

Answer 10

No but many preiest and even the pope had lost sight of God putting the church first.