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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.

>> The Church kept scripture out of the hands of noone....<<

Oh really?

COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D

Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.

Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters, Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980 by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195, citing S. R. Maitland, Facts and Documents [illustrative of the history, doctrine and rites, of the ancient Albigenses & Waldenses], London, Rivington, 1832, pp. 192-194.

The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon:

"No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned lest, be he a cleric or a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared of all suspicion." (-D. Lortsch, Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.)