This was neither reformation nor restoration but deformation and revolt.
1500 years after Christ, someone came along who was overly scrupulous and could not bear the burden of his guilty conscience. This man was a priest, but could not control his sexual passions. He used some abuses in Christ's Church in a remote corner of Christendom as an excuse upon which to hang his revolt.
So he invented a new false gospel to assuage his guilt and foisted it on the world. Bible books that did not fit his new false gospel were simply removed on his own "authority."
Intrinsic to this new false gospel was a rejection of the authority Jesus Christ Himself gave His Church on earth. That authority willed by God, was replaced with a new "authority," private interpretation of scripture.
However, the genie was now out of the bottle.
First man rejected the authority of God to give authority to the very Church He created.
Then man questioned the authority of scripture itself, and whether God was truly Creator.
Then man questioned not only the authority of God but His very existence.
Now man declares, GOD ID DEAD.
And if GOD IS DEAD, the final, natural conclusion of rejection of God's authority started 500 years ago, then man can do anything he damn well pleases to anyone. Might makes right. There is no such thing as "wrong." There is no authority upon which to hang any code of morality.
All because a man 500 years ago placed his own new false gospel of the "Bible alone" and "private interpretation of scripture" above the authority Christ Himself established as the protection against the destriction of the Gospel message Christ entrusted to His Church.
In 1930 mainstream "Bible only" protestantism fell into apostacy regarding contraception. Christianity always taught contraception was intrinsically evil. (This was ALL Christians, for ALL time, not just Catholics. The point isn't even open for debate. I can quote hundreds of protestant reformers and subsequent protestant theologians and writers, up to this very day, to prove this was the continual teaching of Christianity.)
This apostacy on contraception is the very root cause of abortion. Abortion follows the contraceptive mentality as night follows day. Evenb the US Supreme Court said so in Casey Vs Planned Parenthood.
Furthermore, because mainstream protestantism and "Bible Christianity" in general condones non-procreative contraceptive sex, they have no moral authority upon which to preach against non-procreative homosexual sex. Thus the homosexual agenda juggernaut is directly a result of the apostacy of "Bible Christianity" on the birth control issue.
And if you can kill the innocent baby in the womb, why not granny in the nursing home? Euthanasia too is becoming widespread, as a result of the acceptance of abortion, which came from apostacy on the birth control issue.
The widespead acceptance in American culture of the culture of death --abortion, contraception, homosexuuality, euthanasia-- lies squarely on the backs of those who apostacized on the life issues several decades ago.
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Atheism, contraceptive mentality, acceptance of abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, the Culture of Death...pity...these are the fruits of your so-called "restoration."
Yes, of course, the roots of all evil are in Orginal Sin.
But Christianity was making inroads against these evils till this revolt's natural consequences, over several ensuing centuries, reversed the trend.
Sorry if this offends other lurkers. I'm sick of the ignorance and blindness to the brutal reality of the consequences of this so-called reformation/restoration.
To reiterate, this is one of the main eternal truths that God, himself restored to prominence that mere men tried to obscure:
"For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law" (Romans 3:28, NASB).
The atonement of Jesus Christ is either sufficient (alone) or it is insufficient (works must be added).
If you choose to believe those who say Christ's sacrifice ALONE is not sufficient to save sinners, then you are believing a lie because such people are not teaching eternal, unchanging, Scriptural Truth.
Nietzche said God is dead.
Jesus said God is alive.
Who to believe?
Nietzche was a sociopathic nihilist.
Jesus is the Messiah.
I'll let readers decide which is the more authoritative source.
I hear this from store clerks whenever I ask questions.