Why did we have a protestant reformation ?

Christians became known as catholic about 100 AD.
This may be partially true but what I meant to say is that the
christian church is first called catholic chuch about 100AD. Some
scholars say a few years before but the majority say just after.
Catholics being called catholics grew over time and I imagine took off
when many christians eventually split from the catholic church when
they perceived they could not reform her in the protestant reformation
of the 16th century. Saying they split and not continued the true
church is usually a point of great contention with protestants. But
that's where we got the common term catholic to describe members of
the catholic church. When there were so many christian denominations
there needed to be a way to distinguish between them.
I'll write a it more. I'm in the mood.
It was 1330AD when the black or bubonic plague first hit Asia and
caused major casualties. Then about 1348-1350 it hit Europe and the
results were catastrophic. Between 1/3 and 2/3 of all people in Europe
died of the black plague in this short time. This is the equivelant of
what would happen if Europe experienced a full blown nuclear war today
- very, very bad. In Englands censuses they saw 70% casualties from
the plague.
All of Europe was catholic and orthodox and getting along reasonably
well with very similiar faiths- only a few differences.
In the plague people infected could be distinguished by black marks
all over them - hene the name black plague. It was likely brought to
Europe from Asia by rats on boats.
It was mainly the best priests and nuns who would take the infected
people into their monasteries and convents to care for the infected
people. The best ones practised Christs teachings to the empth. The
bad ones would not be so hospitable to those infected because everyone
knew how highly contagious the plague was andit was a death sentence
if you caught it - you got it quickly and died quickly.
This event was the saddest day for christianity in that at the end
almost all the best priests and nuns in Europe were dead. We were only
left with the less virtuous ones. Monasteries that had 1,000 good
priest lost every last one in some cases. This absolutely devestated
the church. At the end of this terrible plague the people of Europe
had a masss conversion and return to the church. After seeing so much
death people turned to God as they usually do. This caused the
protestant reformation a little later. The church was devastated and
huge numbers of people needed priests and nuns - but there was hardly
any left. Especially good ones ( good ones are the loyal, holy,
knowledgeable and virtuous ). As a result the church had to quickly
conscrate priests and nuns and the new ones were not the most virtuos
and did not get a proper education in theology etc etc. Under enormous
pressure like had never been experienced before 1,000's of nuns and
priests were quickly made to tend to the masses who wanted and needed
them. Most of the priests and nuns were not the best choice and did a
bad job of it. Members of the church became corrupt because of these
bad uns and priests/ The church never became corrupt in it's doctrines
or teachings but the members certainly did. Even Popes were immoral
and did some bad things like selling indulgences. They can do this and
still be infallible teaching on faith and morals, but it looked very
bad to many christians.
Things were not the best in the church.
In 1490 St Catherine of Genoa is the first noticable voice to cry out
for reform. She had an understudy who's name was Martin Luther ( a
catholic priest ). Luther took it upon himself to get this catholic
reformation happening but must have found it very difficult because
inthe end he spli from the church as did many others who formed 5
protestant churches. These have continued splitting to this day. It's
now 5 into 30 or 40,000 at least.
Luther as the leader of what became the protestant reformation deleted
some books from the bible we're told. This is a fact. He also wanted
to delete some books from the New Testament but his followeres would
not let him. He wanted to delete the book of revelation amongst them.
The old lost many books , but the new remained intact in the end.
It says in the bible that if anyone deletes or alters even one letter
of sacred scipture he will be cursed. It's a sore point but what
authority did Luther have to alter scripture let alone take out whole
books. There were no signs from God that he could or should. We hadthe
same bible for all christians for 1,500 years before this. When the
apostles taught God confirmed their teaching with miracles and signs.
This did not happen with Luther and the reformers. They should have
left the bible intact.
Anyway, I'm getting controversial. After all this the catholic church
continued the catholic reformation and has done so to this day. There
were also quite a few very good popes after the protestant reformation
which helped the church.
It was no doubt Gods will that all this happen as mysterious as it is.
Jesus prayed for christian unity at the last supper when he asked
Father as you and I are one may they also be one. I hope all
christians will return to the church and faith of their ancestors one
day. It's what christ prayed for so it will happen eventually.