ing for accusations against the Catholic Church. Their investigations led them to enter the very Church, which they set out to destroy, and they will become the first to admit that the bulk of Protestant prejudice is due mainly to the lies that have become lodged in the Protestant mind. It is necessary, if you're going to debate with Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, to know where these concepts of theology came from. Each one is different, and unique in it's own way. Basically, the evangelicals are the missionaries, and the fundamentalists are the radical group of defenders and interpreters. The fundamentalist position claims to go back to the time of Christ when they, the fundamentalists, were the true Christians, and were later forced into hiding when Constantine legalized Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, and abolished paganism in 313 A.D. But Constantine never fully abolished pagan practice from Christianity, according to the fundamentalist dogma, and mixed pagan worship into Christianity; they basically made what is the Roman Catholic Church today as far as worship and doctrine. Once the Reformation came about, the fundamentalists were able to come out from hiding, and "restore" and "reform" the lost church of the New Testament. And now, a "Holy Ghost, Bible based" church is resurrected on earth, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.Now there are several problems with this theology. First is the most important fact: there is absolutely no historical, scriptural, or theological evidence to defend this claim. The fundamentalist dogma will dictate that there will be no evidence because the Catholic Church and other "heretic" churches destroyed all the evidence that supports them; they rely on a "word of mouth" teaching. But how is that any different then the Catholic Church preaching the church from apostolic succession by the word of mouth of the apostles? Second, doctrines such as intercession of saints, the V...
