I am confused about faith?

Question

Before HenryVIII, broke away from the Church, England was Catholic if he had done this I would be right in saying we would all be Catholic now

Before HenryVIII, broke away from the Church, England was Catholic if he had not done this I would be right in saying we would all be Catholic now this is what I meant to say

Answer 1

If Henry hadn't broken away from the Catholic Church then the country would've been Catholic...at that time. But it doesn't mean we'd all still be Catholics now does it. Who can say what might have happened between then and now because history would have been different. Later Monarchs would have been able to marry Catholics so we probably wouldn't have the House of Windsor on the throne now. We might have had a revolution like the Russians and all become Communists. Anything might have happened and it's a bit pointless speculating about it. Faith is a personal thing. You don't HAVE to conform to a particular doctrine just like you don't HAVE to belong to a particular political party. You have your own beliefs.

Answer 2

A lot more people would be, but I still believe many many people would have forgotten or chosen an alternative by now, I mean.. what he did would have drove people from the faith even if he stayed catholic the whole time(if he could stay catholic and still done all the things he did)

Answer 3

Maybe God didn't want England to be Catholic so he used Henry to achieve this. If Henry didn't break away from Rome, I expect God would have found another way.
I'm not Catholic or Church of England, I belong to a new frontiers church, we believe God is calling us to restore the church to it's roots.

Answer 4

No, becuase way prior to Henry, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the door of a Catholic Church and started Protestantism.

Answer 5

an interesting question. would Martin Luther & John Calvin and others still have the efficacy had Catholicism remained the sole church in western society? how much of a larger role then would the orthodoxy churches have played. history is full of what ifs.
personally, i think that the Reformationist movements helped people develop a greater understanding of God and therefor a better relationship with Him... so I think God would have inspired the same end result we have today, but perhaps through different means.

Answer 6

You certainly are confused about faith.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church are strangers to faith.

Faith is both a gift of God and a revelation from God.


... when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Answer 7

Untrue.There has always been a remnant of true Christians regardless of any dominating religion in a nation.That's why so many have been martyred in the world for the Gospel.Persecution of the saints has come from more than just Catholic inquisitors.

Answer 8

probably not we would have been catholic for longer but protestants would have taken over at some point for a while at least. most of the people were still catholic though they were forbidden to contact the pope. prostestantism at the time for those who actually believed it (an it is likely that henry wasn't prostestant but merely power hungry) was a revival of what christanity was really about at least that was what it was meant to be.

Answer 9

You may find that some other non-catholic denominations came from places other than Britain. There was a guy named Luther in Germany I believe just as an example.

Answer 10

There were always protestants even when England was mainly catholic, I dont think we would have all been catholic...Hope not anyway!!