The Plain Truth about the Protestant Reformation - Chapter III - May 1956

Roderick C Meredith

History seems to provide some strange dilemmas. One of two alternatives is often assumed about the existence of the true Church during the Middle ages. One is that the Church of God as a visible, organized body of believers had ceased to exist over a period embracing hundreds of years. The other is that the Roman Catholic Church - whose utter depravity we have described in the preceding installment - was the only legitimate descendant of the Church Jesus Christ said He would build (Mat. 16:18). However, many historians are now beginning to realize that there were groups of believers in apostolic truth scattered through almost every country of Europe prior to the age of Luther (Mosheim, p. 685). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library