[adiaireton8]

A ‘simplicity’ that historically only manifested in the 14th century.

I don't know if you were ever a Protestant, but it seems to me that you were not, because you don't know how a Protestant thinks. And unfortunately that makes you more judgmental than you should be. In general Protestants (except for the liberals, about whom I will not attempt to speak) are truth-seekers. They simply see things through a very different paradigm than do Catholics and Orthodox. The "simplicity" of the gospel, for a Protestant, is revealed in *Scripture*. For Protestants, the 16th century recovery was of that presented by the Apostles in the first century, in the NT Scriptures.

-A8

[kawaii]

i have only been baptised Orthodox however I was raised in a prebyterian church (where there’s no a minister who will be ‘happy when Mary Cheney can marry her partner of choice’, and there’s a transvestite on the board of deacons) and went to a Catholic school. Even in NY’s notoriusly questionable Albany diocese, the Catholics fared better.

[kawaii]

The "simplicity" of the gospel, for a Protestant, is revealed in *Scripture*.

The gospel as protestants read it was assembled by the Apostolic church 1500 years before Luther.

[kawaii]

For Protestants, the 16th century recovery was of that presented by the Apostles in the first century, in the NT Scriptures.

A recovery that aledges Christ never sent the Holy Spirit to giude the church as he clearly did in Holy Scripture. The protestants have been on the Bible Buffet since day one.