Indulgences were actually about saving your soul, not prosperity in this life like the prosperity gospel propounds.
You need to research the word of faith movement, because it's definitely a
renewal of the doctrine of indulgences.
"The indulgences of old promised that God would pardon people's sins in exchange for a gift to the church. The indulgences sold today promise a return by God of up to one hundred fold with every gift. The doctrine of seed faith is giving to a need and expecting from God a return on that gift. Many even teach that you should name your seed before you plant it. They encourage you to put an amount of money into their offering and claim something in return, like your uncle's salvation or a miracle debt reduction. If you need a healing, plant a seed. If you need more money, plant a seed. How strangely similar to the selling of indulgences"
Here is a post from another thread that I made on it....
"An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin."
The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead"
(1478) An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins. Thus the Church does not want simply to come to the aid of these Christians, but also to spur them to works of devotion, penance, and charity.
(1479) Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted.
Acts 8:20-23: But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”
Also many Protestant churches never entirely did away with the sacraments to begin with, Lutherans and Anglicans have always kept the sacrament of the altar and the sacrament of baptism
Do you mean they believed they are prerequisites for salvation?
It's pretty noticeable that many heretical teachings have entered the protestant churches, leaving the protestant world in a mess. When you look closely at some of the teachings you can see they do have some roots in Catholicism. I personally see this as an attempt to bring protestants to Rome. The infiltration of these teachings into the churches and the accepting of them will convince protestants of the similarities they share with Rome.
There's a big difference between taking the bread and wine in remembrance of Him and the sacrificial mass. Taking in remembrance accepts the work of Christ on the cross and remembers what He did for us, whereas the other denies His work, instead believing in a sacrificial mass that must be repeated over and over, that Jesus is literally in the bread each time. If protestants held to this Catholic teaching all along, of a repeated sacrificial mass, then they have always been Catholic. Anyone saved by the grace of God through faith, knows that He was the ONE perfect sacrifice and no others are required.
Hebrews 10:11-14: "And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified"
They have a very long history. Research them.
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