[hosepipe]

[ What a joke. The Protestants started up their “religions” from the 1500’s on out of thin air, or should I say out of the somewhat demented mind of Martin Luther. ]

O.K. thats what you have been taught.. But thats not true.. non RCC Church history shows something completely different.. i.e. Foxes Book of Martyrs, Millers church history and many other sources.. Every localiy had its own group not under roman authority until about 313a.d. or so... But you would not know that if you depended on RCC authorized sources..ONLY.. The lie or "spin" that authority was handed down by the apostles from Peter is a myth..

[flaglady47]

“But you would not know that if you depended on RCC authorized sources..ONLY.. The lie or “spin” that authority was handed down by the apostles from Peter is a myth.”

I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran. Catholicism came later. Half my family was Lutheran, half Catholic, so I probably have experienced the effects of the Reformation a lot more than you have, right in my own family.

[Rutles4Ever]

O.K. thats what you have been taught.. But thats not true.. non RCC Church history shows something completely different.. i.e. Foxes Book of Martyrs, Millers church history and many other sources.. Every localiy had its own group not under roman authority until about 313a.d. or so... But you would not know that if you depended on RCC authorized sources..ONLY.. The lie or "spin" that authority was handed down by the apostles from Peter is a myth..

You are correct that Protestantism didn't just start in the 1500's. Protestantism came under various and sundry other heresies such as Montanism, Arianism, Gnosticism, Docetism, etc. etc. etc. You certainly have good company among the heretics.

The lie or "spin" that authority was handed down by the apostles from Peter is a myth..

Proof for this claim? Or does Protestant Tradition suffice?