The data would support an INVERSE correlation to the one they think they have found.

Flidgard wrote:
The Roman Catholic organisation became such an idolatous, blasphemous deceiver that the Lord ordained the Reformation, whereby He removed His Church and disciples and brought them to Scripture law, precept and doctrines.

Was Luther damned on January 2, 1521 but was saved only after he was barred from communion on January 3, 1521?

"The Paul We Think We Know: How his 21st-century evangelical makeover distorts the New Testament reality."

"First-century Judaism didn't have a legalism problem; it had an ethnocentrism problem."

"The misconception about Paul with the longest historical pedigree is that he was anti-Jewish. Many imagine that after his Damascus Road experience, Paul immediately rejected Judaism and embraced Christianity."

The OT Jew had faith in the unknown messiah who was to come, was obedient to and dependent to YHWH for his day-to-day sustenance and salvation.

Perhaps he was influenced by the Reformation leader's (Dr. Martin Luther) philosophy:

"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly . . . as long as we are here [in this world] we have to sin. . . . No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day."

Joe the Protestant wrote:
You might want to resarch Pope Innocent III (very inappropriate name)He had several French Monks killed for Street Preaching out of Bible texts. And when He said that the Pope was the final Authority, they said the Bible was their authority. Source: Christianity Through the Centuries. By Cairns

Also, please provide quotes from original sources referencing this alleged incident.

John Yurich USA wrote:
Therefore NO POPE HAS EVER BEEN THE ANTI-CHRIST.

The following are current U.S. statistics:

(A.) Combined membership: 10,700,000.

(B.) Changed Antichrist doctrine:

(1.) Lutheran: 96%.
* Three of the four largest Lutheran denominations have changed their Antichrist doctrine. WELS with 389,364 members (4% of combined membership) has not.