Really?
Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Arianism, Docetism, Monophysitism, Donatism, Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism etc.
These are just a few of the heresies the Catholic Church put down to protect the faithful from error over the course of the last two millenia. Let me know when the protestant contingent has a record that can match it.
====================================================== Really?
Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Arianism, Docetism, Monophysitism, Donatism, Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism etc.
These are just a few of the heresies the Catholic Church put down to protect the faithful from error over the course of the last two millenia. Let me know when the protestant contingent has a record that can match it.
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There wasn't even a PROTESTANT Church until defrocked and disgraced Catholic priest FATHER MARTIN LUTHER began his "denomination" and the FIRST denomination of Protestantism, in the 16TH CENTURY.
That was 1,500 years AFTER the time of Christ...and AFTER the foundation of the Catholic Church.
Now there are some 30,000 DIFFERENT Protestant denominations. Go ahead and Google it. The Orthodox and Roman Catholics are aiming for unification. And the Protestants? I bet that there will be even MORE Protestant denominations in the future.
It's moot to me as we all worship our same good Lord, Jesus Christ. But the Catholic Church has been around a long time and it, without doubt, stand the test of another 2,000 years and more.
One Protestant fellow wrote that Protestants weren't protesting anymore. I guess he hasn't been to the FR religion forum lately. :o)
These are just a few of the heresies the Catholic Church put down to protect the faithful from error over the course of the last two millenia. Let me know when the protestant contingent has a record that can match it.
Yep...Your religion slaughtered most of them and for not bowing down to your popes...If your religion still had an army large enough, it would try to wipe out all Protestants...