Protestant Reformation Era

Incompetent Efforts

No matter the views of our religious leaders over the way of Yahweh or practices they lay before us, without the comforter's approval, we are all lost and failed.  Until we accept the doctrinal promise that a comforter of the nature and character of divines  is to unveil to resolve all mysteries of life, we will remain failures.

Many reformers emerged right after the death of early disciples of Yahoshea Meshiyach to challenge the state made Christian Church of Roman empire. These challenges were made with intension to restore the true apostolic assembly and its true scriptural doctrines that were exchanged by Roman traditions and customs in the form of Roman Catholic church.

These efforts yielded no good fruits as both the reformers and the alleged mystery Church of Rome shared almost all doctrines and thereby keeping behind them the true scriptural doctrines that were instituted by Yahoshea Meshiyach as foundation to his early assembly.

All efforts of these reformers or theologians ended like the illustrated fly in the web of the monster spider.  The pollutions, corruption, power and penalty of the mystery Babylon overweighed all their good efforts towards  reformation.

To tackle the Romanish monster, the reformers made converts, set assemblies, made wars against the Roman church, established movements, conferences, Confessions, Councils, patriotic and piety societies, evangelical councils, etc to bring their struggle to reality. Such efforts yielded positive results in terms of social, political and religious grounds but for the restoration of the doctrines and precepts of Yahoshea, they became failure.

Evolutions Of Councils And Movements

Many of the movement of the Reformer's churches are conclusive that no one church is singularly truthful in its teachings or doctrines.  Most of the Reformer's church believe that they are on the business of reformation but not strictly into doctrinal corrections.

For such reason, a number of church doctrines exists within even same movement or denomination. As a reformer sets his goals, he will be supported by believers or converts and after his death and passage of time, the main target of his reform will be subjected to debate which may give way for various confessions.

These confessions with passage of times  set the goal for various groups and dissenter groups from the body.

Most of the major Reformer's church of the middle ages like the Lutheranism, Calvinism, Presbyterianism, Methodists, Baptists etc.  evolved different bodies or movements within them that  proffered diverse doctrines and rites.

With passage of time, reformations will begun to generate within a reformers church again to give birth to people with various views as orthodox, libralists, revivalists, reformers etc and each of the stock establishing their confessions  and Councils to support their views.

This was not the way set by Yahoshea Meshiyach and his apostles.  The body of Yahoshea was meant to be united and all converts must see each other as brethren.  Such did not give way for various confessions and councils as seen in modern day protestant churches.

Again, one of the characters of the protestant Christianity and its variety of movements and congregations is that they are totally taken away from the Hebrew background in their doctrinal practices.

Failed Protests

All protestant churches flow along the Greek /Roman traditional beliefs than those of Hebrew syncretism.  When Hebrew syncretism is mentioned before the protestant Christians, they term them as laws and traditions of Hebrews and therefore not conducive for the church. Scriptural doctrines as broadcasting and pronunciation of holy name of Yahweh and Yahoshea, the observation of holy Sabbath and other scriptural ordained festivals as Passover, feast of first fruits, feast of last ingathering and feasts of booths are seen as irrelevant to the protestant churches.

The protestant churches are interested of Roman made doctrines of Sunday worship, addressing the creator on various names of gods of nations, calling the saviour by the Greek idol model names Jesus Christ, belief of Trinity, observation of Easter festival, Christmas festivals.

This is one of the important arrears that put the protestant church out of the successive lineage of apostolic assembly of Yahoshea Meshiyach.

Again, when a reformer emerges with his thesis, his opponents will tag his concept as a heresy and will deregotrily address his works and his followers by his name. For example, people began to identify Marthin Luther  and his works with “Lutheran” but that was never his original intension because he called his works and his followers as “Evangelicals”.

With passage of time, the name “Lutheranism” became the official name of his movement or church.

Again,  the church reformers were unable to address the error of iconism that was practiced by Roman Catholic Church. By the established creeds of Holy Roman church, many molten images or icons were made in representation to the saviour. Yahoshea Meshiyach, Miriam his earthly mother, Joseph his earthly father,  apostles, acclaimed saints and martyrs of the church. Non worship of Ions was one of the original or primary laws of Yahweh to his chosen nation.

Yahoshea Meshiyach in his ministration upheld the laws of Yahweh and especially warned his followers not to bow down before any creature on earth but all reverence should be given unto Yahweh who created all things.

The early apostolic assembly of Yahoshea Meshiyach did not make molten images or statues of their patriarchs for worship purposes.

The worship of images by Roman Catholic Church was directly copied from pagan traditions of the ancient antiquities.

As protestant reformers engaged Roman Church in the war of restoration of all sacred things, they could have avoided the use of icons of any form in their worship.  Today, the protestant and Pentecostal reformed churches are identified with cross images and symbols. For example, high-leveled Presbyters or Bishops of those movements are identified with cross images that they hang on their necks as been done by Roman Catholic faithfuls.

There are portrayals of cross, dove and sprinkle of fire symbols as their identified logos – those were practical evidence of worship of icons as forbidden by Yahoshea Meshiyach and his early assembly. They followed Yahoshea in their own ways and identities not according to the Yahoshea’s way.

Gains Of The Protest

Certainly, the reformer's churches and their movements have contributed positively over some socially related challenges such as abolitionism of obnoxious human practices like the slavery, outcast system, killing of twins etc.  They have equally influence life of many people through patriotism and philanthropic activities.  There are good works done by the reformer's churches over separation of the state and religion, freedom of religion and expression, guarantee to equal rights and justice etc.

These were good works of the reformation churches but the issue of idiolatry was never tackled decisively rather all of the sects or movements were absorbed by the idolatrous apparels of the mystery Roman Catholic Church.