Is there a legitimate Protestant response against Cathodox claims that you basically destroyed western Christianity by...

Is there a legitimate Protestant response against Cathodox claims that you basically destroyed western Christianity by dividing it into thousands of denominations?

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"We are the good guys"

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There is no legitimate state church response against the claim that they follow created manmade doctrines. That goes for all state churches, whether calling itself catholic or protestant. They all propounded the same errors such as pedobaptism. These are all splinter sects of a corrupt political party calling itself a church.

In numerous instances of self-serving ways, people for political gain have tried and failed to replace or deceptively corrupt scripture with manmade doctrines. And they've also turned the revisionist pen to history. But since God preserves his word, they finally failed. The harlot upon the beast represents the state church which commits fornication with all the kings of the earth.

By appealing to worldly desires of warmongering and temptations of worldly gain and glorifying self, many have been deceived into ignoring the Scripture, knowingly willfully subordinating it to false, worldly and self-serving misinterpretations. Yet they've never managed to remove its existence despite this. So that the Word of God always stands as the strongest testimony refuting and arguing vehemently those fallible doctrines and practices, wherever they are invented and innovated/

Yes there is. The only legitimate response to the papist claims is that the protestants that shattered Christendom weren't real protestants real protestantism hasn't been tried yet. Lay that down on them and watch the ebil papists squerm in fear.

Answer from me, a Baptist: State churches are illegitimate. His kingdom is not of this world. State churches never were legitimate and never will be. The Old Testament State Church ended when our Lord was crucified, and will only be restored after Jesus returns.

Henry the eighth founding a state church so he could divorce his wife was one of the main reasons Protestantism gained so much traction.

The church building , the church organization, the church structure , the rites and ceremonies , all of these things are from men. I also think this outlook is often revealed to people by the mercy and grace of God, when for example a person comes to fully realize the presence of God within themselves and guiding them (For example, the serenity prayer folks). God is all Good. If your own path is not aligned with theirs , that’s fine, so long as both are following the will of God.

One million denominations that follow Christ is better than one huge cult that sucks pope dick and worships him

He never said he wasn't going to be powerful on earth. He was telling Pilate that he or his followers didn't need to kill in order to be heard. It doesn't mean lacking power or authority. It means his methods are different.

And there's more to this after the Crucifixion. Before his Ascension he also said: "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."

He could only say this after he conquered death and ransacked hell of it's prisoners and bound the spiritual powers that held sway over the world. First things first. Only then could the Gospel have power on the Earth. There's a reason why the power of false gods crumbled when the Gospel spread, enough to topple the whole Roman empire and it's other pagan satellites among the Middle East, the Celts, and Gauls. Because Jesus bound these demons from causing that influence any longer. That's more power than you can imagine, working right here on earth. It wasn't coincidence or happened by accident or some "trend" in anthropology. It's because of the POWER of Christ… working right here as well as in heaven. Once you realize this, you'll want to rejoice when you see the hand of God in events. Instead of having some loser mentality who thinks nothing ever happens except in the future. This is premillenialist poison.

That aside, what does this have to do with lands and states? The Bible itself shows you it was customary to name church areas after their lands. "Epistle to Rome/Corinthians/Ephesians/etc". And the Seven Churches of Asia, as in Revelation. He didn't tell us to name churches after the evangelical slogans they like using ("Full Tilt Pinball Community Church" or whatever you guys use). None of them abstract labels. They're all named by region - a very tangible thing rather than abstract. Further, Paul specifically distinguishes between "bishops"/overseers and ministers. Ministers ran the individual worship groups within a city, but an overseer was the wider authority with apostolic authority. Each region from the earliest times carried on this tradition of Bishops and they were always known by it. Already within the 1st century you have Ignatius writing as the "Bishop of Antioch" and Clement as "Bishop of Rome".

As for earthly authorities. That's just the icing on the cake. If churches are separated by regional domains, then it's preferable if the secular authorities become believers. One can only hope and pray. Somehow in your imagination, this is wrong and you'd rather have no happy relationship between the church and the authorities in the regions they are in.

Jesus also never said to promote democracy either. He is also called King of Kings and Lord and Lords. But apparently, Protestants prefer just killing kings and propping up individualism. The only one who ever promoted individualism was Satan. The only rebel was Satan. And the Jews also chose a rebel (Barabbas) over their rightful King.

Just to add, the most hypocritical thing about Protestants is that while they erode and destroy Christian civilizations and act dismissive towards any concept of an organized Christian society, they love promoting Israel and have no problem seeing them as exemplary or some "continuation" of biblical Israel and adore it's merging of religion and state in it's citizens' lives.

But no, we can't have that for Christians. You have to embrace the suck. The best to hope for is just some premillenial loser mentality, loving a sense of estrangement from the planet, and a wish for a rapture.

Even more disgusting is to see that flag planted right IN some churches.

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