The problem of the Compounding Errors of Protestantism resulting in the Modern Secular State.

Protestantism holds that the Catholic church became corrupt and the Reformers, such a John Calvin and Martin Luther reformed the church by removing all of the false doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic church and taught the true gospel found in the scriptures as the gospel was lived by the early church.

Error 1) - Protestantism assumes the Roman Catholic church (RCC) is reformable, when in fact, because the RCC was instituted by the Son of God and is kept free of error by the Holy Spirit, the RCC is not reformable.

Compound Error 2) - Based upon error 1), Protestantism assumes the reformers were, in fact, reformers, when in fact because the RCC cannot be reformed, the reformers were actually heretics and rebels who acted against the one true church. The reformers then taught heretical doctrines, such as justification by faith alone, and sola scriptora.

Compound Error 3) - Based upon errors 1-2), the reformers taught justification by faith alone and thereby transformed the sacraments into something that was never recognised prior to the reformation. The new Protestant understanding of the sacraments as symbols used in conjunction with faith alone theology means the Protestants have a false understanding of 1) the RCC, 2) the Reformation, 3) justification, 4) faith, 5) the sacraments, 6) the church.

Compound error 4) - Based upon errors 1-3), Protestants have a false understanding of the church. Protestants, founded upon the ideas of the reformers, believe the various ecclesiologies derived from the reformation. Each Protestant ecclesiology is more or less separated from the sacraments as sources or causes of justification and grace. For each ecclesiology is dependent upon the false notion of justification by faith alone. A sacrament is then subordinated to faith and only acts as a sign and is not dependent upon apostolic succession as found in the RCC sacraments. Sacraments that prior to the reformation, required an ordained priest such as the Eucharist, are either not used, or reduced to the level of only a sign. Or any Protestant sacramental reality is ascribed to a power contained within the faith of the Christian believer.

The Protestant understanding of the church is made apart from apostolic succession. The Protestant versions of the church are then made with several disconnects -

1) A disconnect between the apostles and current believers who live in the present. For the Protestant churches, the modern believer has no connection to the apostles through sacramental succession and thereby has no means to determine church authority, as originating in any divinely founded institution.

2) A disconnect between the church authority and justification. For the Protestant, justification is by faith alone and consequently, a church with apostolic succession is not required. Any Christian can have faith at any time via the bible or the spoken word received through modern media. A For the Protestant Christian can enter in a church community but is not required to under Protestantism.

3) A disconnect between the church sacraments and justification. For the same reasons given in 2) above, the sacraments are not really required. Once a Protestant has faith, everything else is an optional extra.

4) A disconnect between faith and all of the other virtues. The Protestant version of faith is faith is an instrument of justification. Yet again, no other virtue is an instrument of anything at all. Faith is then disconnected from all of the other virtues. Faith is then disconnected to the virtue of justice which requires obedience to the church.

5) A disconnect between Dogmatic theology and church history. Protestants believe many doctrines not found in church history. The Seventh Day Adventists believe in Saturday worship. The Jehovah Witnesses believe Jesus was an incarnation of St Michael the Archangel, the Lutheran's believe in consubstantiation in the Eucharist. All of these and many other Protestant doctrines are not found in church history prior to the Reformation in the mid-1500's. Protestant dogmatic theology is then disconnected from church history.

Compound error 5) - Based upon errors 1-4) The Protestant misunderstands the role of the church in relation to the bible and the believer. The Protestant does not recognise any public authority that is binding with regard to the interpretation of the bible and theological doctrine. The Protestant believes the individual has the authority to discern Christian doctrine, made apart from church authority. Private interpretation of the bible is an error of Protestantism derived and associated with errors 1-4) above.

Compound error 6) -  Based upon errors 1-5) The Protestant embraces a number of errors simultaneously and thinks the Reformation story is true and the RCC story is false. Whilst also holding that any so-called reformer was wrong on multiple points of doctrine and practice and any Protestant denomination is also wrong on multiple points of doctrine and practice. The Protestant errors compound to the point of the Protestant belief system being thoroughly, or significantly incoherent gibberish.

Compound error 7) -  Based upon errors 1-6) The Protestant embraces a belief system that separates faith and reason. The Protestant is then unable to defend any doctrines not found within church history, or the RCC. The Protestant version of Christianity then serves to promote irreligion, rationalism and secularism.

Compound error 8) -  Based upon errors 1-7) The Protestant finds no rational basis for Christian belief and then becomes secular in thinking and moral practice. The secular state of the modern west is a product of the multiple errors embraced by Protestants who have lost faith and become secular.