And the Holy Spirit, directed men such as Luther and Calvin to restore it?
Wouldn't that necessarily mean the Holy Spirit restored the Church out of One-ness and into many-ness? I think a case could be made that fragmenting the Body of Christ in such a fashion is a prima facie case against the proposition. Just a thought...
Thanks very much for your posts and discussions. May God bless you and yours.
It was a question, to give pause to think. I am not infering that it was the case, only that it might be.
Sometime a gardener has to prune a few dead or dying branches in order for the tree to blossom. That doesn’t mean the the plant is dead, but it might have died if the pruning hadn’t taken place.