When do you think the Church got corrupted?

[Eloy Craft]

To take one example, the Reformation was an effort to reject the corrupt practices and beliefs that had crept into the church over time. IMHO, it certainly did have the ability to say "This is not right because it is not in accord with the historic faith, so let us return to doing/believing it the correct way" -- and then to make that correction.

The reformation brought to light the level of abuse of practices and the perversion of beliefs to support the abuse. The practices and beliefs that support them, understood and applied properly remained.

 

[Albion]

The reformation brought to light the level of abuse of practices and the perversion of beliefs to support the abuse. The practices and beliefs that support them, understood and applied properly remained.

Okay, but I'm not seeing any reason to think that, when the church goes wrong, it is impossible to correct that development. See below for the background to my post about the Reformation.

If a teaching was once unnadulterated truth and then became errant there is no way to distinguish the work of God from the work of man because a work of God became a work of man.

 

[Eloy Craft]

This is not right because it is not in accord with the historic faith, so let us return to doing/believing it the correct way" -

See, but believing what is true wasn't the problem. It was teaching what is believed and practicing according to that belief that was a problem. The belief and the practice weren't the source of corruption , the human ministers were.