Joseph Smith taught the church needed to be restored in the 19th century, others believe it needed to be restored in the 16th century. The Church of the Bible nevers needs to be restored. False doctrine is false doctrine. Were it not for the Church, there would be no Bible to refute the LDS with. Jesus prayed we’d all be one, yet some call the Church a “cult”. Once you reject the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church”, any and all doctrines are possible i guess.
Well, one church, the RCC, I see you are going to continue pushing the RCC, but this thread is supposed to be about Mormonism not the RCC. I think we can agree that Joseph Smith was a false prophet and leave it at that.
others believe it needed to be restored in the 16th century.
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No, they believed it needed to be REFORMED, not restored.
Luther set out to right the abuses he saw in the everyday PRACTICE of the hierarchy, that is all. It then snowballed from there but that was not his original intend.
BTW, I believe in one holy, catholic (small c), apostolic church (ekklesia), which is the Body of Christ. That doesn’t mean Jesus set out to start a denomination, rather ‘ekklesia’ means assembly, it is a general not a specific term as it is used in modern English.