The Reformation was necessary.
#ToChristAlone
Discussion
The Orthodox say the same thing.
Both highly unbiblical.
This is why men were martyred for sola scriptura.
Agreed. It's probably why the Orthodox priests ignored Philip Melanchthon letters when he reached out them for help.
Matthew 16:18-19 from the Douay Rhiems Bible:
"18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven."
What did The Lord Christ mean by this? Does He not say that he's building The Universal Church upon The Rock Peter? Does He not say that the authority to bind and loose things on earth and in heaven?
Can someone be saved without the orthodox church?
Outside of the Catholic Church or Orthodox Churches who maintain apostolic succession, any salvation granted by the grace of God is not because of but despite this distance. If one has been given the information and opportunity to seek the grace from His Church and denies it is certainly in danger of the judgement.
This isn't to say that God wouldn't grant salvation to those with perfect contrition but who haven't been given the information and opportunity to join His Church, it would be presumptive to say otherwise.
The point is by intentionally distancing oneself from His Church built upon Pope Peter with each subsequent priest deriving apostolic authority from from the previous, you are playing with fire. Hell fire.
Meta Tomist is somewhat right. The reformation led to innumerable divisions… how many thousand of ‘churches’