Oh no! They were the ones who actually survived the period when the RCC was killing Christians.
>> Luther, Wesley, Calvin, Henry VIII, Zwingley et al knew of Christ because the Catholic church had taught them about Him!!! <<
LOL The actually learned about the true Jesus when they got their hands on the true scripture after the RCC had corrupted and even kept out of the hands of the masses any access to the written word.
Good grief, they get their hands on true scripture....and that came from where???? The Church kept scripture out of the hands of noone....Recall that in those days, bibles were hand copied by CATHOLIC monks in monastaries and thus were VERY expensive. They were basically available to the wealthy, royalty, and a few libraries. The average Christian couldn'd possible afford to have one. When the printing press was invented by Mr Gutenburg, the word of God became much more inexpensive to own!!!
you also mentioned that the Catholic church had "corrupted" the word of God.....corrupted whose version??? The church was the sole source of scripture and corrupted nothing.