Historical Protestant Christianity began when Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517 and initiated Historical  Protestant Christianity called the reformation. These were issues identified by Luther where catholic doctrine was inconsistent with biblical teaching. The reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestant Christianity that ultimately led to many protestant denominations. The other primary reformer was John Calvin who initiated an interpretation of the bible called Calvinism that deeply influenced many areas of Protestant thought.

Some of the catholic doctrines the reformers objected to, dated back to the corruption of Apostolic Christianity when the physical “center of gravity” location of Christianity switched from Antioch Syria, the center of apostolic theology, to Alexandria Egypt where the apostles never ventured. This began after about two centuries. Those new leaders of the Christian church in Alexandria were learned and steeped in Greek philosophy. One Greek philosophy they believed was Dualism. Dualism was the belief that physical things were evil and only spiritual things were good. This belief was inconsistent with biblical doctrine.

One example was the 1000-year Kingdom of God to be set up on earth immediately after Christ’s second coming as is clearly spelled out in Revelation Chapter 20 and discussed in other biblical texts. Belief in dualism conflicted with the plain sense interpretation of biblical events that the apostles believed and taught. Consequently, the interpretation of scripture had to be changed to accommodate it. That resulted in the method of biblical interpretation to be changed from the plain sense literal meaning to an allegorical interpretation where the interpreter could read his thoughts into the text. This led to an “end times” eschatology called amillennialism. This allegorical method of interpretation was initially conceived by Philo, was continued by Origen and was established by Augustine in his book “The City of God” published in about 420 AD.

The allegorical method of interpretation introduced many doctrinal errors into Christianity. Most of those continued through the Dark Ages until the reformation. The reformers, to their credit, exposed some of them in the 95 Theses. However, they did not apply the “plain sense” literal interpretation to all of scripture; consequently, some of the corruption  is still present in protestant as well as catholic doctrine. One example is amillennialism; it is held by Catholics and most Protestants.

This one misinterpretation of scripture leads Christians to believe that the church age we are currently in, is the Kingdom of God dispensation referenced in the bible. That false belief changes the mission of the church from carrying out The Great Commission to establishing heaven on earth where we are trying to eliminate all injustices and inequities and bring in a form of utopia. Since the problem of injustice lies within the human heart, any and all efforts in this direction have failed and will fail. This leads to many false unbiblical beliefs. Below, these false beliefs are contrasted with biblical principles: