[Petrosius]

The term, “Protestant” original meant “protestor” against the pope. Luther protested against the pope of his day.

Nice try, but the Protestants were not mere protesting against the pope but of all the bishops and 1500 years of Church teaching.

[rintintin]

“Nice try, but the Protestants were not mere protesting against the pope but of all the bishops and 1500 years of Church teaching.”

The Reformation started with Luther protesting against abuses being sanctioned or perpetrated by the pope at the time. Principally, indulgences.

[daniel1212]

Nice try, but the Protestants were not mere protesting against the pope but of all the bishops and 1500 years of Church teaching.

Impossible, for distinctive Catholic teachings did not exist that long, for are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation. and which best shows how the NT church understood the OT and gospels).