Protestants (including Mormons): When did the "Great Apostacy" happen?

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It happened when Joseph Smith had his delusional vision of the “two great personages”.
 
I think the OP is asking at what year did the “original” Christian Church founded by Jesus (which we 3 who have posted so far believe looks a whole lot like the Catholic and Orthodox Churches today, and to whom we trace our roots) become a bunch of heretics.
 
Spirithound said:
I think the OP is asking at what year did the “original” Christian Church founded by Jesus (which we 3 who have posted so far believe looks a whole lot like the Catholic and Orthodox Churches today, and to whom we trace our roots) become a bunch of heretics.
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Without a doubt !

Peace, OneNow1
 
Spirithound said:
I think the OP is asking at what year did the “original” Christian Church founded by Jesus (which we 3 who have posted so far believe looks a whole lot like the Catholic and Orthodox Churches today, and to whom we trace our roots) become a bunch of heretics.
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Redemptive history is much older than the Roman Catholic claim of 2,000 years. God’s redeemed people goes way beyond that. It seem Roman Catholicism only seems to acknowledge the New Testament Saints and not the Old Testament Saints as being Roman Catholics. God only has one group of redeemed humanity in Christ. The great apostasy is Genesis 3. Do you mind adding that one on your choices? All mankind is rebelling against God after the fall of Adam.
 
Reformed said:
It seem Roman Catholicism only seems to acknowledge the New Testament Saints and not the Old Testament Saints as being Roman Catholics.
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Then you haven’t spent enough time in a Catholic church (and not necessarily of the Roman rite!)
 
LutheranDK said:
I take offence to your including mormons in the group called “protestants”. Protestants are Christians, mormons are not.
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Is the luthern church christian? To my understanding, it has women pastors or priests, allows for same sex union, abortion on demand, etc. And to my understanding, the luthern church in Europe does not try to stop abortion laws even where it is the state religion. You belong to a very liberal church but I don’t know if it is christian.
 
I think that mormons would respond by putting the time line somewhere between 33-70. Perhaps protestants would put the date close to Constatine. And the catholics would be the great apostacy with the reformation.
 
Tsuzuki said:
Mormons are Christians, but they are not Protestants.
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Mormons are NOT Christians.
Many individual Mormons lead good lives, & have faith in God. It is for God, not me, to judge their righteousness or lack therof.
But since they lack the proper Trinitarian formula for baptism, they are not a Christian body.

That said: ***There was no “Great Apostacy”. ***
 
Isa_Almisry said:
Well?
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Why would you assume that Protestants necessarily believe in a “Great Apostasy”?

One could just as reasonably ask this of the Orthodox. When did Western Christianity go off the rails? Only with the Schism (and when do you date that, anyway), or pretty much from the beginning, as some Orthodox theologians seem to think?

Edwin
 
Tsuzuki said:
Mormons are Christians, but they are not Protestants.
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They are not Christians and this is the reason that Mormon baptism will not be accepted by the CC. They now claim to be Christian for whatever reason they find advantageous but by their own theology they are not. JW’s are also not Christians because their doctrine does not fall within the definition of Christian, whatever their other claims.🤷
 
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