Protestants if the Protestant Reformation never occured what would you do?

Question

Think about it no Protestant Reformation means no Protestant denominations which are a lot by the way. So what you do? Would you join the Roman Catholic Church? Would you join any of the Orthodox Catholic Churches? What would you folks do? By the way this is in no attempt meant to make anybody defensive or upset anybody so please just simply answer the question and move on. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hopefully, I would then start the Reformation. :) But this is perhaps similar to saying, if Jesus hadn't come along 2,000 years ago would you be a Pharisee? God continues to reveal Himself to man. God's truths don't evolve, only man's understanding of them.

What I am trying to emphasize here is simply that God's Church is the body of Christ - which includes both Catholics and Protestants....all who follow Christ.

Answer 2

Many Catholics are still protesting and trying to reform the Church.
Rev. George Stallings Jr formed his own church, calling the Catholic Church a "white racist institution". He as been excommunicated.
Members (600 of them) of St Patrick's congregation in St Louis
were excommunicated by the Bishop for rebelling against his choice for a parish priest.
Bishop Mlingo of Africa participated in an arranged marriage performed by Rev. Moon (of the Unification Church)
Three women were "ordained" as Catholic priests by a female "bishop" this month in St. Louis.
The Dominican Order in Holland has proclaimed that, in the absence of a priest, members of the community, male and female, regardless of sexual orientation, can celebrate Mass
Augustinian Friars in Holland have celebrations of Mass performed by a Protestant and a Catholic priest together, communion is distributed by a layperson, and the whole congregation receives both wafer and wine.
The Protestant Reformation had a huge impact but it was not the beginning of the push for reform. One difference is that now the protests are also from lay people.
If there were no Protestant denominations, I think I would join the Roman Catholic Church so I could be a part of the Christian community but I would have "mental reservations" as they say.

Answer 3

If there was no protestant reformation, there would be no bibles in any language except latin, we would all probably still be subject to the church and its laws, and be compelled to believe, I would like to think that I would naturally question some beliefs, but if I can't read the Bible, then I really would have no basis to question them.

Answer 4

Honestly, there is no way the Lord would have allowed the Catholic church to retain a hold on His Grace. There have always been proto-reformations of the heart.

There were saved Christians before the reformation, just not a lot of them.

Answer 5

There were some Christians who had dropped out of the Catholic church before the Reformation...........the anabaptists for one...........

The Protestant Reformation was God's idea - not Luthers - God simply used Martin Luther.................it would have happened anyway because it was God's will...........impossible to say it couldn't have happened.

Answer 6

Very interesting God Chose Martin Luther here is a little from Luther It gets even better than this I don't have room for Calvin but equally interesting

God has appointed me for the whole Protestant faith, and I boldly vouch and declare that when you obey me you are without a doubt obeying not me but Christ Whoever does not, despises not me but Christ. I believe that we are the last trump that sounds before Christ is coming. What I teach and write remains true even though the whole world should fall to pieces over it. Whoever rejects my doctrine cannot be saved. Nobody should rise up against me. I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ, When I beheld Christ I seemed to see the Devil. I had a great aversion for Christ. I was horrified at the name of Christ, and when I regarded Him on the Cross, it was as if I had been struck by lightning; and when I heard His name mentioned, I would rather have heard the name of the Devil. I did not believe in Christ. God did mischievously blind me; God often acts like a madman God paralyses the old and blinds the young and thus remains master. I look upon God no better than a scoundrel God is stupid. Christ committed adultery with the woman at the well about whom Saint John tells us. Was not everybody saying: `What has he been doing with her?” Secondly, with Mary Magdalene, and thirdly with the woman taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even Christ, who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died. It does not matter what people do; it only matters what they believe. God does not need our actions. All He wants is that we pray to Him and thank Him. It does not matter how Christ behaved what He taught is all that matters. What does it matter whether we commit a new sin? Faith cancels all sin. No other sin exists in the world except unbelief, Sometimes it is necessary to commit some sin out of hatred and contempt for the Devil. What does it matter if we commit a sin. You must say my sins are not mine; they are not in me at all; they are the sins of another they are Christ's and are none of my business. Christianity is nothing but a continual exercise in feeling that you have no sin although you sin, but that your sins are thrown on Christ. From the moment you acknowledge that Christ bears your sins, He becomes the sinner in your place. Be a sinner, and sin boldly, but believe more boldly still. Not only men, but the Saints and Apostles must be sinners. The Saints must be good, downright sinners. The Apostles themselves were sinners, regular scoundrels…I believe that the prophets also frequently sinned grievously. You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In everything else He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever. Marriage is an outward material thing like any other secular business. The body has nothing to do with God. In this respect one can never sin against God, but only against one's neighbor. The matrimonial duty is never performed without sin. The matrimonial act is a sin differing in nothing from adultery and fornication
The word and work of God is quite clear, women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. If your wife does not want sex, take another. It is not forbidden that a man cant have more than one wife.

Answer 7

wouldve been church of england or catholic

Answer 8

wel who can say it did happen and we know they were showing where the catholics had gone wrong and still do.