[kosciusko51]

After the apostles died, was the gospel hopelessly lost until the Reformation?

That certainly seems to be a common assumption in some Protestant circles today. Thankfully, it is a false assumption.

I’m not entirely sure where that misconception started. But one thing I do know: it did not come from the Protestant Reformers.

I've not heard this in the Protestant circles I encounter. Anyone have an example? Thanks!

[vladimir998]

“I’ve not heard this in the Protestant circles I encounter. Anyone have an example? Thanks!”

I have - many, many times heard this from Protestants. I have even heard of more bizarre understandings such as a Moody Bible school prof who refused to teach anything other than Paul’s letters because ONLY IN THEM he said do you find the gospel. Apparently he did not think the gospel was in the Gospels. Now, that is truly bizarre!

The “New Perspective on Paul” implies that Protestant understanding of Paul was different than that of the Early Church Fathers too.

Some of the bizarre pseudo-Protestant views of history - a truly revisionist history - can come out with things that are not only heretical but border on the insane: http://toledofavs.com/2014/04/21/aramaic-jesus/

[MamaB]

I had never heard anything like that either. I have been to many denominations over my 71 years.