olish this, but as we have seen over 2,000 years, the church is in fact thriving in sin and scandal. It can be found in the Catholic Church, and every Protestant church in the world. Men are her ministers, not the angels. But despite the corruption, the Church has survived, and is still as strong as ever. Protestantism, with all of it's pomp and circumstance, worldwide mission programs, and programs geared toward former Catholics, has found itself beginning to crumble in recent years. Now true, it did gain incredible strength in the early 1970's, but the numbers of the overall Radical Protestant movement has dropped ever since it started. The Catholic Church, however, built on the rock she is, remains stronger then ever after 2,000 years. It is the one Church in the world that is universal, the only one that speaks with the authority of Christ and the only one that even claims to be without doctrinal error. And the lack of error within the doctrines of the Church is what led the Reformers to prove the Church wrong. Martin Luther broke away from the Church that was founded by Christ, and brought out all means possible to blacken the Bride of Christ. The Lutheran or Protestant position will credit that Luther was the "second messiah" by bringing the church back to a Bible based Christianity. But converted Protestant theologians and scholars often go back to the first framers of the Reformation, such as Luther, Wesley, and Calvin. The study of the works of these men confirms that Protestant history was poisoned at its source, and has blamed the spread of the evangelical movement to a giant lie. It is this that leads to such a hatred of the Catholic Church. After reading some of the most anti-Catholic books, if I were in the other person's shoes, I would hate the Church probably even more then they do. What always comes back as amazing is that the best scholars of the Catholic Church were once Protestants who converted as a result of search...
