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Your convoluted logic flys in the face of "Foxes book of Martyrs"... which was not about Luther but about some of what caused his aguish.. not mentioned in the PBS piece but so relevant as an adjunct to the Luther story.

There is an online copy of the book that is Google'able... Quite different look at the time in question. Interesting to boot...

"Your convoluted logic flys in the face of "Foxes book of Martyrs"..."

Foxes Book of Martyrs? LOL. A heretical book written by a heretic for heretics. Full of the usual anti Catholic diatribes, this apostate book helped inspire Luther to leave the true Church and go start his own "church". I'm wondering why Protestants think Jesus Christ lied to the Church when he promised: "I am with you always, even to the end of time". (Mathew 28:20). When exactly did Jesus break His promise and leave His beloved bride the Church to fall into desperate error? And where is it prophesied in Scripture that Christ's Church would fall into apostasy and need to be rescued by a "reformer" who would then found his own Church?

Does Jesus want His Church divided into 25,000 different Protestant denominations, each teaching a different doctrine on salvation? "By their fruits ye shall know them", and the "fruits" of Protestantism is rebellion from lawful Church authority through the succession of Peter and devastating divisions within the Flock. "Is Christ divided"? (1 Corinthians 1:13).