What is the origin of the Protestant church?

Answer 1

Simon Magus is the founder of Gnosticism, the forerunning movement before Protestantism. He was excommunicated by Peter. Therefore, Protestantism started by him. Martin Luther made false doctrines such as sola fide, sola scriptura and many more. The reformers were pure evil. Luther and Henry VIII committed adultery. King Henry founded the schismatic Episcopal Church of England which he and his successors are the supreme head. John Calvin was another evil reformer. He preached predestination, which he make God a demon! They accused the pope as the Antichrist but they are really Antichrists.

Answer 2

Protestantism was refusal of papal authority. Clearly stated in a play "A man for All Seasons" whereby King Henry the Eighth of England was denied remarriage by the Pope when his wedded Spanish wife could not bear him a heir. He then usurped the authority of the Pope as King and ordered Parliament to make a law prohibiting the spiritual authority of the Pope in England. One of the King's agents Thomas Moore disagreed with the King and was executed for disobedience.

There are other writings that explain the birth of protestantism, that may be referred to.

AnswerActually, the above was NOT the birth of Protestantism. Henry VIII rejected the authority of the Pope, but, despite his excommunication, remained a Catholic until he died.

Protestantism began in the century before by Martin Luther who rejected what he saw as corruption within the Church centred on Rome (the Eastern Church had already split away) and nailed his theses document onto a door of a church at Wittenberg, indicting the Church as a corrupt organisation. He realised, by reading Paul's letter to the Romans in the New Testament, that we are saved though the grace of God and not by being a member of an institution (the Church) - contrary to Church teaching.

He was subsequently excommunicated, but by then others who protested to the Church of Rome also split away - including Calvin and Zwingli. The Protestant movement that took hold over much of northern Europe (and which is still prevalent in Germany and Scandinavia today) enabled reformation of the Church to take place, including reformation by the new Protestants as well as an internal reformation by the Catholic church based at Rome.

Answer 3

• the acceptance of the theory of evolution by the catholic church.
• and the continuing rejection by most conservative protestants.
• the rejection of the death penalty by catholic church.
• and the acceptance of human homosexual.

Answer 4

England. king Henry the 8th allowed Divorce in the church, over riding the rule of the Catholic Church and the Pope.

Answer 5

About 1517.