[af_vet_1981]

Essential assertions of the posted portion of the article:
1. The Reformation is essential to Christianity.
2. Evangelicals' doctrinal, spiritual, and cultural identity are based on the Reformation.

These reinforce my view, that the Reformation (re-formation of Christianity) was a new religious movement devised without apostolic authority by certain men who did not agree with each other.

It is essentially a five century old progressive attempt to reformulate Christianity according to the most recent image of what it should have been but was not, and continues according to that pattern to this day.

[Claud]

Exactly. Liberalism was born with Luther.

[Just mythoughts]

These reinforce my view, that the Reformation (re-formation of Christianity) was a new religious movement devised without apostolic authority by certain men who did not agree with each other.

John 1:1 “In the beginning (Genesis 1:1) was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

It has been man, listening to 'sweet self serving whisperers', since the beginning that got a 'spirit' and tried to make themselves the WORD... It is not that hard to test the fruit of men's workings, after all, we all have access to the WORD.

[boatbums]

These reinforce my view, that the Reformation (re-formation of Christianity) was a new religious movement devised without apostolic authority by certain men who did not agree with each other. It is essentially a five century old progressive attempt to reformulate Christianity according to the most recent image of what it should have been but was not, and continues according to that pattern to this day.

That may be your view, but it's a wrong one. EVERY single tenet of the Reformer's can be backed up by Scripture and the teachings of the Apostles and can be shown to have been held all the way back to the early Christians. Roman Catholicism cannot claim the same. In fact, Roman Catholicism split five hundred years BEFORE the Reformation from the Eastern Orthodox because of the exact same reasons. According to them, Catholicism tried to do the reformulating!

[Elsie]

The Reformation is essential to Christianity.

The COUNTER Reformation is essential to CatholicISM.