"Agreements"? You mean, agreements between me and you, or agreements between Reformers and the Catholic hierarchy?Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 7:52 pmCarry on. I unnerstan. There are likely other areas where some agreements have been or could be forged.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 4:42 pm Such caused the Reformation. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
The latter seems less likely than the former. The former might well happen. The latter, in retrospect? Not so much.
The Catholic authorities had already installed a set of corrupt and unscriptural practices and rituals, like the selling of offices, the deification of the "saints," and exploitative "indulgences," had already rejected the five "solas" of the Reformation as heretical, and had attempted to use inquisitorial tactics against anybody who even proposed a reform. And at the start, that was all the Reformation seems to have been about -- making a few basic reforms to bring the Catholics back in line with Scripture. But in the end, if the differences were intractible, that was not on the reformers' side, but on the Papacy's. The members of the Catholic hierarchy were apparently simply not willing to allow themselves to lose their excessive privileges and end up standing in attendance on Biblical authority.