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247. Protestantism is not a protest against Christ, but against the Roman Church. Christ promised that His Church would not fail. The Protestant Reformers said that it did fail. Instead of protesting merely against the bad lives of some Catholics, and even of some Priests, they went too far, and protested against the Church as such, asserting that Christ had failed to keep His promise concerning it. This was a protest against Christ, who had promised to be with His Church till the end of the world. Protest as much as you like against individual abuses in the Church, but no man has the right to set up a new Church.

Catholics incorrectly assume that when Christ spoke of his Church, he meant the physical organization of the church at that time.

Christ, was instead referring to those born-again in the Spirit. This has always been Christ's and his Heavenly Father's church.