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I just do not see how you can say this Daniel. If it was, Luther et al would not have tried to reform it.
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Well it is the same as trying to reform an apostatizing denomination like the Church of England. The CoE is a scandolously corrupt church, but it has not
by its confession anathematized the gospel. And thus it is still part of the visible institutional church. But the same cannot be said of Rome.
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Now Daniel, are you about to say that Rome did not 'officialy' believe in a trinitarian doctrine until 1215?
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It may have officially formulated the doctrine in 1215, but this is not the same thing as saying that it anathematized a belief in the Trinity before that date. Before Trent many Papists did not believe the gospel, and so they were a scandalously corrupt body, but at Trent it became official church policy to anathematize the gospel of Christ.